Ramsey Resident - 2015 - November/December

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Focus on Environment - Recycle Your Old Holiday Lights e holidays are fast approaching theres no cost to you and you divert these and many of us will soon be putting up ll, a real lights on our homes and trees. Who win-win scenario. w hasnt discovered a string of lights that no While on the topic of recycling longer works? Or maybe youve decided around the holidays, here are a few more its time to purchase some LED lights that wrap is still not use less energy? Rather than tossing your recyclable due to the large amount of old strings of lights in the garbage, theres now an opportunity to recycle them for wrap should either be saved for reuse next w e City of Ramsey once again is year or put out with your garbage; howev- y partnering with the Recycling Association wrap can be of Minnesota (RAM) to be a collection site for holi-recycled. Boxboard (material used for cereal boxes) e Recycle Your Holidays en part of the packaging of items and it can program employs over 200 people with disabilities and should be recycled. Finally, maybe the best ap- throughout the state and has an annual goal of recycling proach is to simply look for items with less packaging. over 200,000 pounds of lights. ective rough this program, you can recycle holiday approach to diminishing the demand on the waste lights as well as electric cords, telephone cords and ap- lls. If you have any questions con- pliance cords. Every part of the light strand is disman-cerning holiday waste or the Recycle Your Holidays bins will be program, please contact City Planner Chris Anderson located at the Ramsey Municipal Center to collect these at 763-433-9817 or canderson@cityoframsey.com. items from . Again, November 15 through January 31 10 Ramsey Resident ¤ November/December 2015