Bring your light bulbs and batteries to Ikea for recycling

June 11th, 2007 Alex

I went to Ikea over the weekend and saw that Ikea had an area with bins for recycling batteries, lightbulbs. It was pretty impressive to see such a big display and each bin actually had a significant amount of items in them. Ikea has been actively participating in helping the environment and recently started charging 5 cents per plastic bag in an effort to get people to start reusing bags and to cut down on plastic bag waste. They also sell big blue bags for 59 cents that are similar to the yellow ones that they have in the stores. These bags are actually great for many things because they are big and sturdy. We have personally kept them in the car to bring things in from Costco and for getting the laundry. If you want to be creative, you can even transform it into a shoulder bag!

Ikea was honored with the 2006 EnviroStars Recognized Leader Distinction and has made efforts to reduce its ecological footprint, eliminate hazardous chemicals used to create Ikea products, and participated in waste reduction and repurposing. You can read more about the list of things that Ikea has achieved here in the Envirostars webpage as well as on the Ikea website.

Entry Filed under: Environment,Green Tech,Recycling