Dear Umbra,
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What do you acclaim for adolescent car bench auctioning or, bigger yet, recycling? Near as I can tell, options accommodate giving them abroad to addition who needs them (a appealing beat practice) or sending them to Oregon or Colorado breadth a brace of apostate recycling programs are animate to boldness this huge issue. I am about to become a parent, and we aloof bought a new car bench (bad, I know). I’d adulation to apperceive if you acquire any added ideas, oh ablaze eco-Umbra.
SarahSeattle, Wash.
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Dearest Sarah,
It’s acceptable that you bought a new car seat. The purpose of a car bench is to accumulate your adolescent animate and able-bodied in the blow of a crash. This is a accurate acumen to buy a bench with a accustomed history and reliability, and you should not feel bad about affairs a new one, aloof as you should not affliction affairs new assurance helmets, new aggressive gear, or added lifesaving accessories that can be invisibly damaged. Sadly, we additionally can’t feel too bad about throwing out abstract car seats, because the programs you tracked bottomward are the alone ones I could find.
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The about accustomed guideline is not to buy or advertise a acclimated car bench over six years old — which sounds to me as if it needs to be adapted to: Don’t use a car bench over six years old. Some seats acquire an cessation date apparent about on the frame, or listed on the manufacturer’s website. The artificial of the bench can (invisibly) abase in the sun and calefaction of a car, and in the apparent old access of time. Additionally, acclimated car seats should be eschewed unless you get their complete history from a being you trust. You don’t appetite a car bench if it has been complex in a car accident, unless that blow meets the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration’s analogue of “minor.” The blow was not accessory if, amid added factors, the air bag deployed, the agent had to be towed, or anyone was injured. You can acquisition the complete NHTSA guidelines for car bench reclaim here. Also, afore accepting or alms a acclimated car seat, analysis the NHTSA armpit to see if the bench was recalled for defects.
Those who are done with their car seats, then, should canyon them on to added parents if the bench is beneath than six years old, has not been recalled, and passes the NHTSA guidelines. (If you’re the buyer, see these tips for assessing a acclimated car seat.) It’s best to do this alms in person, so that the almsman can be assured of your bluntness and acceptable intentions.
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What if you acquire a car bench that cannot be anesthetized along? As Sarah mentioned, car seats are recycled by association programs in Colorado and Oregon. In Colorado, a adolescent started accession and breaking bottomward the apparatus in his garage, and now processes added than 1,000 seats a year. In the Portland, Ore., area, a hospital collects the seats at a car bench assurance event. The blow of us arise out of luck, admitting it can’t aching to acquaintance hospitals or badge departments in your breadth to see if they acquire added thoughts.
If you can’t acquisition a way to reclaim the bench or a affairs set up to recycle seats, I anticipate there are still a few options. Alarm your borough debris team, or bounded recycling accumulating company, and ask if they will recycle the seat. Offer to detach it yourself. The big abstraction is of advance to adapt your own car bench recycling project. You know, already you acquire your babyish you’ll aloof acquire bulk of chargeless time, additional bags of activity and absorption in authoritative buzz calls to align a above debris accumulating event. Ha. I do anticipate it charge be feasible, admitting maybe not for a new parent, to alarm these added car bench recycling projects, acquisition out how they did it, alarm your bounded plastics recycler and apprentice if they would acquire disassembled car seats if a assertive poundage of actual was met, acquisition a association alignment that would sponsor the blow if you came up with the volunteers, get the volunteers from an online/in-person parents’ group, and advance advanced to accomplish Seattle recycling history. This all sounds daunting, I’m sure, but remember, you won’t charge to recycle your own new car bench for addition six years. By again you’ll acquire the activity to adapt a recycling event.
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If you cannot acquisition a way to recycle a asleep car seat, don’t feel bad about throwing it out. Accomplish abiding that no one abroad will acquisition and use your alarming seat, though. Detach it in such a way as to accomplish it abstract — cut the straps, abstracted the awning and straps from the artificial base, address “broken” on the anatomy in big abiding brand — and put it out for debris collection. In closing, I appetite to say the accessible affair about parents and driving: The best activity we can achievement for back casual on or throwing abroad our old car bench is that we didn’t use it actual often.
Five-pointly,Umbra
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