On 2/12/2011 4:39 PM, RicodJour wrote:
On Feb 12, 4:12 pm, wrote:
On Feb 12, 2:02 pm, wrote:



HeyBub wrote:
RicodJour wrote:
Good question. In my area:
http://www.northhempsteadny.gov/cont...4435/5474.aspx
Fourth on the list.

In yours:
The City of Houston will accept fluorescent light bulbs and tubes from
residents at the North and South Environmental Service Centers and the
Westpark Consumer Recycling Center.

For more information and directions found via the links below...
ESC North
5614 Neches, Building C
ZIP Code 77026

ESC South
11500 South Post Oak
ZIP Code 77035

Westpark CRC
5900 Westpark
ZIP Code 77057

Why would I take a burned-out (or whatever keeps them from functioning) CFL
to my recycling center when I could mail it to my congressman along with a
note saying "You know what you can do with this!"

To prove you are smarter than a brick??

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Better to waste $5 on fuel to recycle a bulb which cost $2.50...what a
system...how can one lose? Better to save them up until you have a box
full and ship them all to your elected rep who helped pass the stupid
laws that supposedly saved the environment and energy costs by the
banning of most incandescent bulbs.
==

What do you do with your waste batteries, oil, paints, pesticides,
medicines, etc? It's no big deal to have a hazardous material
recycling container and deal with the stuff appropriately. Within a
couple or three years there will be a light bulb deposit instituted.
Might as well get in the habit now.

R

I already mostly live in the dark, so if I can keep the volume down to
one box/trip per year, I can live with that. I hope it is on or near a
route I travel anyway, like my regular recycling dropoff is. The
karmic/green and dollar justification for recycling gets upside down
real fast if you have make a special trip and burn more gas to
accomplish it.

I keep meaning to switch from the small dumpster to the roll of stickers
to to put on my own bags- I only put a foot or so in the bottom of that
dumpster every week, living alone as I do, so I don't really feel I'm
getting my money's worth from Waste Management at $55 every 90 days. No
way am I gonna pay them the extra 5 bucks a month to use their orange
recycle box. I've never seen a separate truck come around, and the big
packer truck has no second bin- I think they are landfilling all of it
until recycle prices go up again, if they ever do.

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