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Home Depot is offering discounts for LED holiday lights in exchange for older strings. (Daniel Hernandez/KTUU-TV)by Channel 2 News staff
Saturday, November 8, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- With the energy crisis heading into the holiday season, one store offered an incentive today for customers wanting to go green.
The Home Depot in Midtown kicked off its first holiday light exchange program. Customers turned in their old holiday light strings -- working or not -- in exchange for a discount on eco-friendly LED lights.
The newer lights use 90 percent less energy than traditional ones and last up to 20 times longer.
The hardware store will recycle the copper and glass from all the lights they receive nationwide.
"It's been very popular so far," Home Depot's James Stoneking said. "We've already accumulated one large shipping box of folks bringing in their old lights -- the non-eco-friendly lights -- to get credit toward some of the newer, eco-friendly, LED-type lights."
The program continues tomorrow at Home Depot stores.
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