Recycling Florescent lights

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Recycling Florescent lights

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Is there any place that accepts old florescent light tubes?
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We put a couple out with our trash & they were left on the lawn. So, now we know that Deffenbaugh/WasteManagement doesn't take them! There is the recycling center on South 60th between Q & Harrison that does have a glass bin. The bins are unattended, so maybe there?
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Take them to Under the Sink:
http://www.underthesink.org/
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As a home owner you can dispose of them to the landfill. As a business you cannot.


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Here is the link to the Nebr DEQ that states this.

http://164.119.180.2/__86256873006009CB ... 652F4?Open
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Use them in a backyard wrestling league?
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Big box home improvement stores still take them I think. However I wouldn't doubt if they just throw everything in the trash compactor anyways.
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The big box stores can't throw them in the trash, they pay a "recycler" to put them on a barge heading back to asia that stops in africa and drops them in large open landfills where kids pick through the toxins for hard drives and other things they can sell.
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jessep28 wrote:Big box home improvement stores still take them I think. However I wouldn't doubt if they just throw everything in the trash compactor anyways.
20 years ago when I was working at Bakers, we would wait until the large trash dumpster was empty and then throw them like javelins at the back of the dumpster. Great fun for high-school kids.
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Brad wrote:
jessep28 wrote:Big box home improvement stores still take them I think. However I wouldn't doubt if they just throw everything in the trash compactor anyways.
20 years ago when I was working at Bakers, we would wait until the large trash dumpster was empty and then throw them like javelins at the back of the dumpster. Great fun for high-school kids.
We did the same thing when i worked for Taco Johns. :D
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skinzfan23 wrote:
Brad wrote:
jessep28 wrote:Big box home improvement stores still take them I think. However I wouldn't doubt if they just throw everything in the trash compactor anyways.
20 years ago when I was working at Bakers, we would wait until the large trash dumpster was empty and then throw them like javelins at the back of the dumpster. Great fun for high-school kids.
We did the same thing when i worked for Taco Johns. :D
When I worked at Baker's, I didn't mess with light bulbs too much. I did receive a mild electrical shock trying to get a fluorescent light bulb to work in a freezer case once. Now that I'm more mechanically inclined than when I was a teenager, the ballast was probably bad. Oh well.

I was in dairy before I quit, and do recall throwing out of date/damaged gallons of milk, eggs, yogurt containers, etc against the trash compactor wall. The stoners in deli thought it was fun too, and would ask me to hold on to stuff I needed to throw out so they could do it
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