If you’d like to spend your money on a car seat whose manufacturer is committed to social and environmental responsibility along with child passenger safety, check out Clek. Their seats are manufactured in Canada using primarily North American suppliers. Materials are chosen with both safety and the environment in mind, and do not contain chlorinated or brominated flame retardants. Clek […]
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Update 8/1/2017: Changing markets for recycled plastics have caused Total Reclaim to discontinue their car seat recycling service. Please check our data base for current recycling options. The Old Car Seat, New Life team is pleased to announce that booster and car seat recycling will be available on an ongoing basis in Seattle thanks to our partnership with local recycler, […]
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The Old Car Seat, New Life team and our recycling partner, Total Reclaim, will be at Kids’ Safety Day in Kent Washington on Friday, June 26th from 10 am – 1 pm to collect your used booster and car seats. This popular event was previously held at Boeing Field. Kids’ Safety Day offers families the opportunity to climb around in fire […]
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We collected 110 car seats for recycling at our Earth Day Drive! Many thanks to our recycling partner Total Reclaim for inviting us to participate in their collection event, to KIRO 7 for hosting the collection, and to all of the local parents who brought in their old car seats for recycling. If you missed the event, please subscribe to […]
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Car seat manufacturers are continually testing their products to ensure safety. But once those car seats have been tested, what do the manufacturers do with them? Are recycling options as difficult to identify for manufacturers as they are for consumers? They are – as Eric Dahle, the Director of Engineering at Evenflo, discovered eight years ago when Evenflo began to […]
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While recycling car seats is certainly key, the environmental impact of owning car seats extends far beyond what happens to those seats at the end of their useful life. For this reason, the Old Car Seat, New Life team is pleased to present our new blog series that will help parents and caregivers find the resources they need in order […]
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Did you know it is never advisable to let a child play with a car seat? It seems like a good idea, but Child Passenger Safety Technicians advise against it. As of 2014, new car seats have another label near the head area that warns against the dangers of being strangled by harness straps. Enough incidents occurred (these occurred outside the […]
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A 2014 study conducted at Children’s Hospital at Oregon Health & Sciences University Hospital found widespread errors among new parents securing their infants into car seats for the first time. The numbers are shocking, with families logging an average of 4.2 mistakes and 90% of families making two or more errors.
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Our first car seat reuse and recycling drive at the Sustainable Ballard Festival was a great success, bringing in a total of 161 seats – 18 to be reused and 143 to recycle. That’s a lot of seats diverted from the landfill! Thanks to volunteers from CoolMom, Zero Waste Washington, the Girl Scouts and the Seattle Academy of Arts and […]
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Review your car seat usage to make sure you are using the correct seat for your child and car.
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