County Residents Encouraged to Recycle Old Holiday Lights
The lights can be taken to three county drop-off facilities.
If you discover unusable strings of lights as you unpack ornaments for the holiday season, consider taking them to any of the three county drop-off facilities.
According to a news release from the county, the lights should be placed in a designated electronic container located at each facility. The lights will be reused, repaired or recycled.
County residents can take their lights to the following facilities:
Eastern Sanitary Landfill Solid Waste Management Facility
6259 Days Cove Road
White Marsh, MD 21162
Monday - Saturday 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Baltimore County Resource Recovery Facility
201 Warren Road
Cockeysville, MD 21030
Monday - Saturday, 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Western Acceptance Facility
3310 Transway Road
Halethorpe, MD 21227
Monday - Saturday, 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Kate
9:48 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
When you go to the drop-off facilities, is there a specific place to drop the lights off?
Stephanie
4:47 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
I for one will never part with my good old "normal" Christmas lights. I can't stand the new LED lights and dread the day when those type will be all we see.
Evets
5:56 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
I like the LED lights. I can connect like 43 strands together (according to the directions) and they do not suck nearly as much power out of the grid as the old lights.
M. Sullivan
6:28 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
The newer LED lights are much brighter and cheaper. I finally converted to all LEDs last year, not to save power, but because they don't burn out as easy, saving a lot of aggravation. When I pulled out last year's LED lights, not one bulb was out in all 1500 lights. Probably saved me 2 hours over previous years. I only use colored lights, so they look fine.