Disposing of Fluorescent Tubes FAQ

Kev · 2006-02-10T09:20:49+00:00

My council have always taken tubes before but they are classed ashazardous waste and can't go in landfill so I will have to burn petrol,putting CO2 into the atmosphere taking one 4ft tube to the council dumpto be diposed of. There again I could put the tube back in the bin andhit it on the side with a hammer.Just wondered what is so hazardous about a tube that it can't go intolandfill.Also bearing in mind that there has been debate this week about finingpeople for using a filament bulb and encougaging the use of compactfluorescent bulbs whether the CO2 saved by using the more efficientbulbs is going to be more than offset by the extra CO2 used indisposing of Fluorescent tubes and bulbs.Kevin

Feb 10, 2006 105 Replies

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Dave Fawthrop 20 years ago

|We have a "free" collection of green waste in a separate |brown-coloured wheelie-bin, collected every fortnight apart from a |month or so in the winter.

Our council sold us two 300 litre compost bins at a huge discount, so we

*use* green waste and food waste on our garden. The only cost is some delay between putting waste in the top and shoveling compost out of the bottom.

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Owain 20 years ago

We'll be able to tell the grandchildren, "I used to be in IT. Then I became a plumber. Then at 68 I retrained as a miner."

Owain

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Mike Barnes 20 years ago

Same here but we also use the council green bins. They have a special high-temperature composting process that takes stuff that an ordinary domestic composter doesn't, or not readily e.g. woody stuff and nasty weeds. (Or so I gather: SWMBO is the expert.)

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Douglas de Lacey 20 years ago

Already beginning to happen here in Cambs. Big plans for the future include using MBT to produce a fuel for the local cement works; of course if we recycle all we could then the fuel wouldn't actually burn:-/ See for a view on this.

Going to the tip is fine for councils: that's included in their brownie points. Saving even more energy by the 3 Rs, or home composting, is becoming anathema. There are some very interesting local(-ish) schemes (in Suffolk) offering a green waste collection for a price whichis then turned into compost for sale and employ various categories of otherwise-unemployable people. Sadly, council politics are likely to put these out of business in the medium term.

You don't need to be nearly that cynical to be led to despair over waste management here...:-(

Douglas de Lacey

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Douglas de Lacey 20 years ago

I thought it was a leopard? Anyway, once you have battled past that yes, you can fill in a form which asks "Are you in favour of your Council emplying a sexy new way of improving your life-quality? (YES/NO)", when the issue is actually whether they should increas recycling (=NO) or generate carcinogens by burning waste in a huge new incinerator (=YES). That's democracy.

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Dave Liquorice 20 years ago

Correct:

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like tigers though. They, and polar bears, are about the only animal that sees homosapiens as prey. Yes, others will attack and possibly kill you but generally don't set out to hunt you.

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