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Speaker 1: Instead of moldering in a landfill for the next few centuries,

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Speaker 1: your old broken holiday lights could go towards helping East

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Speaker 1: African lions.

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Speaker 2: Lights for Lions is a recycling initiative that we started

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Speaker 2: here at Zoo, New England last year.

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Speaker 1: Peter Zampin Junior with the Franklin Park Zeus says they

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Speaker 1: collected fifteen hundred pounds of broken lights last year. The

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Speaker 1: lights might seem useless, but he says recyclers find their

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Speaker 1: inside surprisingly valuable.

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Speaker 2: They will extract all the wiring on the outside of

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Speaker 2: the material, there will be copper inside the lights.

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Speaker 1: The money raise goes to Line Landscapes in Tanzania. That's

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Speaker 1: a conservation group there that helps install the equivalent of

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Speaker 1: lion scarecrows.

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Speaker 2: We work with them and implementing deterrents that could scare

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Speaker 2: these predators away.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise they'd eat the local cattle and get into conflict

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Speaker 1: with the herders there. The program runs through the end

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Speaker 1: of February. Kyle Shaffle to be Busy Balsan's News Radio