On Jan 21, 5:15*pm, Derek Geldard wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:49:07 -0000, "Fred Finisterre"

wrote:
It's one of these:

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/8470321-21/detail/B00133SDV6

Anyone know how do I dispose of it safely/greenly?

Are you sure it's really dead ?

"Dynamo" Hansen's CFL's last 20 years +

It's a Chinese Yellow, maybe it's just pining for it's homeland, the
place of it's birth on the banks of the Yangtze Kiang. *

;-)

Derek

This recycling business seems to definitely be 'A work in progress'!
Here ANY fluorescent tube or CFL is NOT SUPPOSED to be put into
garbage pickup!
They are all (now) classed as 'Hazardous waste'.
However like anything also, one or two 'hidden' CFLs in the regular
garbage pickup go gaily on their way to end up in the dump (tip) and
be buried. (Along with regular light bulbs and everything else
including much bigger items!)
Particularly since there seems to be no procedure set up by the local
recycling depots to accept them!
However one or two 48 inch fluorescent tubes put out in the garbage
pickup were left by side of the road; don't know if that's how one got
'accidentally on purpose' broken, but have our suspicions. Based on a
couple of complaints about the occasional actions of one garbage
collection contractor!