Recycling

[billroper]

We're planning a trip to the Des Plaines Public Works Department for their Wednesday drop off of electronics, as I have accumulated a great many things that are no longer allowed to go in the trash:

Eleven failed hard drives

Seven keyboards of questionable function

A dead VCR

And a dead CRT monitor of enormous size that weighs a ton

Now if only there were a closer place to get rid of a broken CFL than Naperville. There are also sites in Chicago and Rockford, according to the Illinois EPA. Apparently, if you live downstate, you are S.O.L.

There's a schedule of dates for hazardous waste disposal on the Illinois EPA website. There are none listed for 2014.

Apparently, broken CFLs are supposed to become cherished family heirlooms, because it doesn't seem that you can get rid of them...

Comments

[jennlk]

ISTR that either Lowe's or Home Depot will take some fluorescent bulbs -- check with them. (and if they do, Menard's probably does too....)

[billroper]

According to the websites that I have found, Home Depot (and I assume Lowe's and Menard's) will take unbroken CFLs. The one I have cracked when I tried to put the fixture back together. I suppose I could disguise it in a bag, drop it off, and run...

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I'm unsure in your case what to do with the CFL, or FL for that matter, but the computer stuff can go to Best Buy. I know for us, it cost $$ to $$$ to get rid of big CRTs at the city place, but BB takes it all for free.

Actually, ask your Lowe's/HD about the CFL. Even the unbroken ones in the bin probably break as people chuck more in.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Could you,
Maybe,

Wrap 'em 'n' pack 'em an' pad 'em real careful
'n' MAIL them to where they belong?

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

And a partridge in a pear tree!