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"Charlie" wrote:

Well, today a pair of 40 watt fluorescents in the kitchen finally gave up an
quit.
So off I went to my local big box store and bought a 2-pack of replacements.
I put them in and they worked .

OK, what to do with the old ones?

On the little cardboard piece that holds the two tubes together in the store
GE has the following statement.

"environmentally responsible-meets Federal EPA regulations for normal
disposal"

Then on another panel on the same piece of cardboard is this statement.

"Hg - LAMP CONTAINS MERCURY" (their caps)
And below that "Manage in Accord with Disposal Laws"

I wonder if anybody at GE reads this stuff. Maybe the last guy with a brain
got laid off and no one left there can read.

My waste disposal company says to bring them to the hazard material drop-off
location. I will do that.

Charlie

Never mind all that. Just play mailbox baseball with them. It's
satisfying, in that things get broken, yet doesn't cause homeowners to
come after you with shotguns. A win-win.