UserName

Does anyone know what you're supposed to do with these new fangled energy saving tube bulb doodads when they're dead?
I've been putting dead flouro. tubes in the normal glass collection for years (like the little ones from the bathroom mirror light), like most people have, I suspect.
Yet apparently there's a small amount of some mercury compound in them, and if you break one you almost need a hazmat team to come around and clear up!
So, if these things have been chucked in the back of the parish glass truck all these years, probably breaking when thrown in, does that mean that the glass collection blokes have been exposed to it in any serious way? Is there a fine dusting of mercury all over the roads from all these broken tubes? Enquiring minds want to know!

dannyt

Yes apparently you have to contact your local chemical disposal company who ever that may be. I have no idea. In the mean time till we find that out, we just put them in a black bag and throw them out, and hope we don’t get a job as a binman