Hours Of Operation
Monday - Saturday
8am to 5pm
You can drop off anytime durning business hours
We also offer pickup service for $25.00 in most cases
We specialize
in flourescent bulbs, including tanning bulbs of all lengths.
Did You Know?
- Carbon Credits
don't do anything for mercury pollution. While using florescent
bulbs tends to save energy, it's important to the environment
to dispose of them properly.
- Each year, an estimated 600 million fluorescent lamps are disposed
of in U.S. landfills amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste.
- The Environmental Protection Agency reports that 187 incinerators
nationwide emit approximately 70,000 total pounds of mercury
into the environment each year.
- In 1992, mercury-containing lamps were added to the United
States' Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) list of hazardous
substances. (The EPA's regulatory threshold of 2 mg./liter is
usually exceeded by mercury-containing lamps).
- Mercury was number three on the 1997 list of hazardous substances
as outlined by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR) and the EPA.
It's
Illegal To Trash Them
Due to the new Federal Environmental Protection Agency's regulation on lamps,
which went into effect on January 6th, 2000, most non-residential facilities
are now required by law to properly dispose of their lamps. Landfills are increasingly
intolerant of lamps from non-residential sources due to the amount of mercury
found in each lamp. Lamps later found in landfills are subject to retroactive
clean-up costs under CERCLA. Recycling of the lamp components is the recommended
method of disposal by the Environmental Protection Agency and helps to minimize
facility liability. Packaging of the lamps coupled with the recycling of the
lamps will greatly reduce the mercury dilemma and create a much safer environment. |
