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FLUORESCENT
LIGHT RECYCLING DEPOT
EcoSuperior Environmental Programs,
with support from the Ontario
Ministry of Environment, Environment Canada and
Ontario Power Generation
is offering the public a convenient
drop-off point for spent fluorescent
lights up to 4 feet in length. Compact fluorescent lights are also accepted for recycling.
Fluorescent lights should not be put
out with the regular garbage but should
instead be brought to EcoSuperior between
the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, Monday to
Friday, 212 Miles St. E., (side door)
across from CBC radio in Thunder Bay.
In Greenstone, beginning in July 2007, residents can bring spent fluorescents up to 4' in length, including compacts, to the Geraldton Ward or Longlac Ward Public Services Garage by appointment only with the Ward Foreman. In Geraldton, call Rick Durocher at 854-1121 or 854-8635 (cell). In Longlac call Rick Miron at 876-1138 or 854-8863 (cell).
Residents of Wawa and the Michipicoten River Village can bring spent fluorescent lights up to 4' feet in length, including compacts, to the Municipal Garage at 42 Montreal Avenue on Thursday’s between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Residents of Red Rock can bring spent fluorescent lights, up to 4' in length, including compacts, to the Public Works yard.
EcoSuperior continues to expand its fluorescent light recycling program in Northwestern Ontario. Information about an upcoming recycilng program in Atikokan will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
Lights are best bundled with a couple of elastic bands. They can also be wrapped in newspaper (and then wrapped with elastic bands) or packed in their original
cardboard packaging. We ask that you take packaging with you when you drop off spent lights,
Broken lights or lights which have been
taped together will not be accepted.Tape can become extremely difficult to remove, causing breakage.
Our collection depot is offered for
residential use only. Commercial or
industrial spent bulbs, or bulbs longer
than 4 feet, should be taken to MGM
Electric, 724 MacDonnell Street/345-7767 in Thunder
Bay. MGM collects lights on a "pay-as-you-go basis." Fluorescent light recycling is not cheap. Unlike items such as pop cans where the recycler will pay collectors for the valuable aluminum, in the case of spent fluorescent lights, collectors must pay the recycler. At a minimum, this is approximately 50 cents per spent light, plus transportation to the recycler.
Fluorescent lights are very energy efficient,
but do contain mercury, which is harmful
to the health of both people and wildlife.
Hundreds of millions of fluorescent
tubes are landfilled annually in North
America causing mercury to escape into
the atmosphere or leach into groundwater,
streams and lakes.
EcoSuperior's lamp recycling program
is aimed at diverting mercury from both
the landfill and the environment. One
hundred percent of the lamp is recycled,
including glass, metal end caps and phosphor
powder. Most importantly, the mercury
is reclaimed and recycled, rather than
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