'LightRecycle' reaches one million mark

Just more than a year after its inception in Washington state, the LightRecycle program has reached one million lights recycled through its program.

According to a press release, the program allows people to recycle up to 10 fluorescent lights or Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) per day at more than 220 collection sites across the state. The program allows for fluorescent lights, CFLs, High-Intensity Discharge (HID) lights and other mercury-containing lights to be recycled.

Recycled lights are accepted at three Whitman County locations: Whitman County Public Works Solid Waste Facility located...