Separate any unbroken lamps and cleanup breakage with a specialized mercury vacuum cleaner or other suitable means that avoids dust and mercury vapor generation. Place materials in closed containers. Recycle waste along with intact lamps. Help get the word out. Text--Keep Fluorescent lamps out of the trash. Contact your local household hazardous waste agency. Broken lamps can release mercury to the air and water.
This includes fluorescent tubes, compact fluorescent lamps, metal halide lamps, and sodium vapor lams. For more information see www. Keep out of the trash.
Also see Battery Posters and Stickers. JavaScript is required for this site to operate correctly. Please enable Javascript in your web browser and then refresh this page. CalRecycle maintains archived information on its website as a record of its activities for use by the public and CalRecycle staff. Compact fluorescents, including low mercury lamps. Sodium lamps, such as those sometimes used as security lighting and outdoor floodlights.
Mercury vapor lamps, such as those sometimes used for street lighting. See a list of all wastes banned from the trash. Enter your zip code to find the nearest recycling center. Includes information for many types of recyclable material, including household hazardous waste.
See the Web site of your local governmental household hazardous waste agency for the latest information in your area.
Businesses Businesses now manage mercury-containing lamps and tubes as universal wastes for recycling. The recent universal waste regulations eliminate the hazardous waste manifest requirements and increase allowable storage time to one year. Businesses can use prepaid mailing containers from lamp recyclers or contact a universal waste handler e.
Contact the DTSC office near you. Fluorescent Lamps, Tubes, and Universal Waste Hazardous waste regulations designate a category of hazardous wastes called " Universal Waste.
Why Use Fluorescent Lamps and Tubes? Fluorescent lamps and tubes are an energy-efficient alternative to incandescent lamps for the following reasons: Three to four times more energy-efficient. Cost less to use. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution from energy production. Coffee grounds, coffee filter. Greasy pizza boxes. Cereal boxes. Junk mail, phone books.
Compostable bags. Corks, natural. Waxy cardboard, wax paper. Aluminum foil. Cans empty. House Paint. Paper plates. Glass bottles empty. Paper towels. Soy milk cartons, soup cartons empty. Recycle bin Cardboard. Break down boxes. Cardboard food packaging. Juice boxes empty. Cassette tape. Please remove film portion before placing hard plastic in the recycling bin.
Caps and lids okay. Make foil into ball. No food. Aluminum, steel, or tin. Scrap metal. Includes small metal household items, such as broken pots and pans. Appliances and electronics with metal parts require special handling. Recycle empty cup, sleeve, and plastic lid. Newspapers, magazines.
Remove plastic lining if any and bundle with plastic bags. Glossy paper okay. Recycle clean and dry paper only. For greasy or food-stained paper, place in the green composting bin. Packing paper, craft paper. Paper and plastic egg cartons okay. No polystyrene foam. Envelopes with plastic window okay. Lids okay. Otherwise, please put shredded paper in the composting bin. Paper soup cup empty. Plastic bottles empty. Plastic cups, plates empty. If labeled "compostable," put in green bin. Plastic coffee cup lids.
Plastic clamshells empty. Food containers empty. Plastic tubs, lids empty. Wire handle okay. Bundle clean, dry film plastic inside a tied plastic bag the size of a basketball. Newspaper bags, deflated bubble wrap and air pillows okay. Compost bin Compostable containers. Item must be labeled "compostable.
Compostable containers. Compostable cups, plates, bowls, utensils. Dirty paper. Food containers. Chopsticks okay. Food scraps. San Francisco Department of the Environment.
Residents Business Contact. Submit Submit. How do I get rid of light bulbs in San Francisco? Hazardous Waste: Do not place in any carts, bins or dumpsters Compact fluorescent lights CFL , fluorescent tubes, high-intensity-discharge HID bulbs, and neon signs contain mercury, which is harmful to human health and the environment, even in very small quantities.
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