Where will you recycle your CFL's?

We make about 1 trip per year to IKEA in Warrington, UK and this has a recycling point for CFLs. So we save our old CFLs and collect them together for our Ikea visit. I didn't manage to find any alternative to IKEA when I enquired a few months ago.

Since our CFL's have, to date, not blown out (over 3 years on the same bulbs!), I have not needed to worry about it. But we have all types of recycling close to where I live, including electronic, hazardous, etc. so it will not be a hardship for me. And well worth the trip to save the money, energy, etc.

It depends on where you live. I was told that there is such a small amount of mercury in any fluorescent light bulb that is shorter than 8 foot long that they can be put in your regular trash. I have problems with that so I suggest the closest hazard waste collection site. Some cities like Norman, OK have a site where they collect 4 times a year.

Im not sure what a CFL is but i recycle at least twice a month.

I plan to throw them in the trash, just like my regular fluorescent tubes.

Your mom is constructive, CFLs contain mercury and would properly be disposed of outstanding. you're extremely on the mercy of whoever you provide them to pondering the very truth that you do not comprehend how they are going to be dealt with. yet it really is larger useful than tossing them interior the trash. Incandescent bulbs would properly be disposed of interior the trash pondering the very undeniable truth that they contain in straightforward words metallic and glass. you're ideal tho, LEDs are the finest pondering the very undeniable truth that they don't have any volatile chemical substances in them. FWIW: i imagine of your mom is over reacting via no longer wanting to exhibit screen CFLs. the finest aspect to do is to study your community recycling concepts and are available in for the era of a recycler that you would take care of to have self assurance.