Check every bulb: Recycling your broken string lights

Christmas has come and gone, and now you are noticing your twinkling lights are not twinkling. But this year, think twice before throwing them in the trash and, instead take those busted lights to the Kent County Recycling and Education Center.

“So the trash can goes to one place, and the recycling bin goes to another, and then this is that spot,” said Kent County Waste Reduction Educator Micah Herrboldt.

Think of the center as kind of like a reverse Santa’s Workshop right now. Because, instead of building toys, they are breaking things down.Which I guess would make Micah Herrboldt a second-hand Saint Nick…

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