The City of Lexington’s annual holiday lights collection drive has begun, with 13 businesses and organizations accepting them through January 12. Seth Holbrook is a program coordinator with the city’s Division of Environmental Services. He said a chief goal is to prevent folks from putting them in recycle bins, which can cause serious problems down the road. “It’s especially important that the lights and a lot of those associated materials don’t end up in that sorting process, the conveyor belt, moving it along, obviously, if they slip off into any of the edges or in under that, that machinery.” According to a news release, in seven years, the program has kept five tons of electronics out of landfills. “Once everything is collected, we take it to our E-waste site, we weigh it all out and make sure that we place it into pallets, and then it goes on to be recycled. So a lot of these materials are recyclable themselves. They’ll be stripped down for the wire, the glass, all that kind of stuff.” Lexington Environmental Quality and Public Works is a supporter of WEKU. Lexington holiday lights collection ** WEKU is working hard to be a leading source for public service, and fact-based journalism. Monthly supporters are the top funding source for this growing nonprofit news organization. Please join others in your community who support WEKU by making your donation. The post City of Lexington’s annual holiday lights collection underway appeared first on The Lexington Times.