Recycling 4 ft Fluorescent tube lights

[ray1970]

Put in neighbors trash can

Ah. Just like car batteries and used engine oil?

[BPTactical]

Ah. Just like car batteries and used engine oil?

Fuckin A Bubba

[Hummer]

Residents of Boulder and Broomfield Counties can drop them off for free at the Boulder EcoCycle location, everyone else is $35. Does Arvada or Jefferson County have a recycle center?

https://www.ecocycle.org/a-zguide#!rc-cpage=415492

Thanks for that. I have a couple 8 ft. tubes to recycle and the local transfer stations won't accept them. I wonder if these are actually carefully recycled or if most end up in the landfills just like the vast majority of recyclable plastics that go into the plastic recycle bins?

[Great-Kazoo]

If they ?accidentally? get broken they are no longer eligible to be recycled and you can just dispose of them in the trash.

Isn't that the way, it's always been done ? asking for a friend, in boulder. CO that is.

[brutal]

If they ?accidentally? get broken they are no longer eligible to be recycled and you can just dispose of them in the trash.

Just skip eating fish that week.

[newracer]

https://www.adcogov.org/recycling-and-sustainability

[zulu01]

Residents of Boulder and Broomfield Counties can drop them off for free at the Boulder EcoCycle location, everyone else is $35. Does Arvada or Jefferson County have a recycle center?

https://www.ecocycle.org/a-zguide#!rc-cpage=415492

They do have a hazardous waste recycling center but it's not free to drop off fluorescents. They will take some items for free.

[zulu01]

Try your local Ace Hardware. I think they took mine last year.

I hadn't thought of Ace. I'll check them out.

[zulu01]

Batteries plus will take them, for a large fee. Or at least I thought it was a large fee.... I did read that if they are broken, you can double bag them, and place in trash.

I tried them. They charge a dollar per foot.

[newracer]

Another option

https://www.rooneyroadrecycling.org/