Fluorescent bulb disposal plan up in the air
Environmentalists, cities worry mercury will end up in municipal dumps
It's up to the manufacturers and the retailers to take care of this. Otherwise, we're going to be slapped with yet another recycling fee, and have to hunt out remote places that will accept returns - for a fee.
Is that Peter Kent's intention when he says 'it's up to individuals'. Even when we're forced to buy this product? Kent is far better at selling the news than making it.
Here's news for him: if we can be forced to use CFLs the manufacturers can be forced to take back the used product.
Is there any reason there couldn't be receptacles at store entrances, where people could drop their used ones when they come to buy more. Then the manufacturers could see to picking them up and re-using the components.
Did you know there is a whole Ottawa organization, called One Change, built around convincing people to use the new bulbs? They have a long list of staff members and they recruit volunteers to go around knocking on doors, handing out free CFL bulbs. They have a branch (or a head office?) in the US as well. There's obviously big money behind this endeavour.
In other words, in one way or another, we are paying (taxes) so that we can be forced to pay more (to buy CFL bulbs), so that we will then have to pay more (to recycle them).
If the government can come up with a recycling plan, that is. Meanwhile:
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