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01-07-2011, 03:54 PM
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| | | Recycling fairy lights?
What do you do with a string of broken christmas tree lights to recycle them? |
01-07-2011, 07:12 PM
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| | | Re: Recycling fairy lights?
Can't the fairies do their own recycling?
I doubt that you'll be able to separate all the various elements (plastic, glass &c) but I think the most important component would be the copper (I presume) wire - strip anything else off of this and give/sell it to a scrap merchant? |
02-07-2011, 12:05 AM
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| | | Re: Recycling fairy lights?
local waste collection site will have a WEEE collection area, since its been a legal requirement for a number of years for all electrical goods to be recycled
the same reason when you buy electrical goods the shop will offer to take back the product its replacing, this includes strip lights Environment Agency - Householders
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02-07-2011, 07:35 AM
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| | | Re: Recycling fairy lights?
I know it is good to recycle but some items are difficult to recycle, the mix of "other materials" in your fairy lights makes them land fill.
If you want to strip them into component parts and recycle you will find it quite labout intensive.
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02-07-2011, 01:47 PM
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| | | Re: Recycling fairy lights?
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Originally Posted by tom00_uk 
the same reason when you buy electrical goods the shop will offer to take back the product its replacing, this includes strip lights
| I bought them from Woolworths 
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03-07-2011, 08:19 PM
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| | | Re: Recycling fairy lights?
lol... ever mis-read a post title? I wondered who the Recycling Fairy was......?
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04-07-2011, 06:47 AM
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| | | Re: Recycling fairy lights?
Hahaha!
These Recycling Fairies hate working in the dark! | | |
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