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Ive heard its against the law to throw faulty/old light bulbs in the bin?.. So what does one do about disposing of one? Same for batteries..

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You throw them in the bin until HBC provide something else. Standard light bulbs are only glass and metal, the fluorescent and low energy ones are supposed to be disposed of correctly though because of the fluorescent powder and mercury in them.

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iv always thrown my bulbs in the bin...where else should we put them?
think the council need to sort summat out with the energy bulbs though, dont like the mercury bit:(

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same here panther, mine are usually smashed anyway, so do we seperate them and put them into different recycle bins?

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Any low energy or fluorescent lamps should be taken back to the place you purchased them from, for them to dispose of in the correct manner.

See Part 5
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations
Distributor Obligations and Rights:WEEE From Private Households

http://www.weeecare.com/documents/file35992.pdf

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that may be the case, but i sure as hell aint trailing back to wherever i purchased em from, n if i was i cant remember now anyway.:tongueout

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Don't smash them Shaz, the powder inside them is nasty stuff. You don't want you or Reece inhailing it.

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Neil i didnt mean that I smash them, i'm so heavy handed that they usually break in my hand when i'm taking them out

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How does that work then, we are forced to buy these things that contain more dodgy metals and chemicals than I don't know what and whatever 'energy' we saved in their use is totally wasted in the disposal of the sodding things.

Its a bit like those green electric cars, Where the heck does the sodding eleccy comefrom to recharge them!

Having said all that, unless the Americans, Chinese and Indian sub continent stop sucking all the planets resources everything western europe does is a pee in the wind.

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Oooh karma coming Ian! :D

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too right it is,when the so called "powers" get serious, i will.:rolleyes:

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Learn something new all the time, didn't know any of that.

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that is only for the energy bulbs isnt it, the normal ones are save;)

well i hope they are:confused:

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I have used low energy bulbs since 1991 - they last for about 5 -7 years on average.
Special disposal will not be major problem for just that reason -- better than the hundreds and thousands of ordinary lightbulbs going into landfill every week.

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Hot filament light bulbs should be recycled with the other glass and metal items.

As for the new low energy bulbs – they are the biggest con perpetrated on the public for many a year.

Yes they do use less electrical energy and they do last longer but that is the only advantage.

But that is well offset by the disadvantages.

The LE bulb costs up to ten times the cost of a hot filament bulb.
A 75 watts rated LE bulb only uses about 18 watts of power but the light that it gives off is around the equivalent to that of a 60 watts hot filament bulb.
It costs up to ten times more to produce an LE bulb than a hot filament bulb. That’s why they cost more to buy. Plus the extra profit the manufacturer and seller can make.
It certainly takes much more energy to produce one LE bulb than it does to produce one hot filament bulb.
Then there are the disposal costs in cash AND energy.

Finally if everyone used these LE bulbs they would use less electricity. This would reduce what the energy companies will sell, which in turn would affect their profits, which in turn would affect the shareholders dividends and this would affect many pension funds. So the price of electricity would go up to compensate to try and maintain the status quo.

In a nutshell we, the general public (again) will pay more for less.

Now if that isn’t a con, I don’t know what is.