Re: [greenyes] Mercury in the waste stream: Targeting fluorescent lamps

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@no.address>]

Good thread going here.

What strategy for fluorescent lamps would combine the following features:

- provide consumers a way to get rid of old lamps safely
- operate with no "subsidy" from government (rate-payers who don't use 
lamps shouldn't have to pay for someone else's)
- engage the producers of lamps in the disposal/recycling process so they 
get a message that lamps are a disposal problem


H.

At 03:12 PM 8/2/2005, Debra Lombard wrote:

> Well the fl lamp retailers would need to dispose of the fl lamps. They 
> could do that with the bulb eater 
> (http://www.aircycle.com/recycling/prepaid/) type system or such. There 
> would still have a cost to get rid of that waste approx $1/lamp or less. 
> The customer would not see that costs as it would be added onto the cost 
> of a new fl lamp through a disposal fee such as is done on car batteries 
> or tires.
>
> ~Debra
> ____________
>
> How would you pay for that program?  The city would be absorbing the 
> disposal costs for each lamp from all sources including LQGs who were 
> savvy enough to bring the lamps to these 'unsupervised' drop-offs.  Any 
> financing options?
>
> >>> Debra Lombard <dlombard@no.address> 08/02/2005 3:37:32 PM >>>
> I would imagine that a good way to encourage proper disposal of fl lamps
> is to ask stores such as Home Depot, Lowe's and other retail stores that
> sell large number of Fl lamps/bulbs to have customers carefully bring in
> their used lamps to the store and put them into a plastic lined box made
> for such.
> Maybe the City could pass an ordinance to have this done for all retailers
> of fl lamps.
>
>
> Debra Lombard, LEED AP
> Sustainable Design Specialist
> The RETEC Group, Inc.
> 900 Chapel St., 2nd Fl - Box 9
> New Haven, CT 06510
> Tel: 203-868-0137
> Fax: 203-773-3657
> dlombard@no.address