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

[Debra Lombard <dlombard@no.address>]

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
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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