Recycle your holiday lights!

Give the environment a holiday gift; recycle your lights.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium is teaming up with Girl Scouts of Western Washington again this year on a holiday lights recycling program. Working together, we hope to keep thousands of strings of lights out of landfills. Collection continues through mid-January.

All proceeds from the 2013 Holiday Lights Recycling Program will fund shark conservation efforts.

So if you have lights you don’t need or want anymore, we have an environmentally friendly way for you to dispose of them.

Tips for Recycling Lights:

• Remove all packaging, twist-ties and rubber bands.
• Place lights directly in the bin -- with no bags or other extra material.

Here’s where to take your lights:

Metro Parks Tacoma dropoff sites:

• Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, 5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma, main entrance
• Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (during open hours), 11610 Trek Drive E., Eatonville
• Metro Parks Tacoma headquarters, 4702 S. 19th St., Tacoma
• Tacoma Nature Center, 1919 S. Tyler St., Tacoma
• STAR Center, 3873 S. 66th St., Tacoma
• Center at Norpoint, 4818 Nassau Ave. N.E., Tacoma
• Portland Avenue Community Center, 3513 Portland Ave., Tacoma
• Peoples Community Center, 1602 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma

Girl Scouts of Western Washington dropoff sites:

• Seattle Administrative Office, 601 Valley Street, Seattle
• King County Regional Office, 13029 NE 20th St, Bellevue
• North Regional Office, 1331 State Ave., Marysville
• Peninsula Girl Scout Program Center, 1600 NE Winters Rd., Bremerton
• DuPont Girl Scout Center, 1000 Davis Place, DuPont, WA 98327