The Sustainable West Seattle (SWS) staff including President Christina Hahs was on hand at the West Seattle Farmers Market on Sunday gathering recycled Christmas lights. Their truck was filled with boxes each of which was crammed full of recycled old holiday and christmas lights - several hundred pounds according to Chas Redmond - Patrick Dunn, manager of the SWS Tool Library and Hahs.

SWS also had a demo showing the electricity draw of conventional, incandescent lights, even the mini's, and the new LED lights - with a string of 100 LED lights and another string of 75 incandescent mini lights running for three hours, the LED lights drew 3 watts and the incandescents (even though there were fewer) drew 300 watts - roughly 1 watt/hour for the LED string and 100 watts/hour for the incandescent string.