[Announce] lights - where best to recycle round flourescents?

[Daniel W. Van Riper]

Excellent point, Sheree. Good plan, Jim.  Perhaps concerned citizens  
could present a list of recycling demands to the City.  Here's the  
beginning of the list:

1)  Depository for all fluorescents.  Compact fluorescent bulbs have  
become more common, and there is even talk of banning incandescent  
bulbs.  This is fast becoming a disposal crisis.

2)  Household food waste pickup and processing.  Sally remembers when  
the City did that.  There's no reason why the City can't purchase a  
cooker to sanitize the waste and sell it to farmers as feed.  Perhaps  
it could be processed into ethanol.

3)  Tire pick up.  In my neighborhood this is a big problem.   
Admittedly, tire disposal is one of the biggest waste disposal  
problems we have at this time.  But after the tires get dumped in  
public, the City eventually comes and picks them up from lots and  
back streets anyway.  Why not make it easier for everyone by picking  
them up, putting them someplace in an orderly manner and finding a  
way to sell them.

4)  Domestic battery depository.  There's a lot of recoverable rare  
metals in these toxic babies.  Honest Weight Coop has a battery drop  
box, but I know of no other in town.

Can anyone add to this list?

SPB and others have been telling the City to collect methane from the  
Dump and generate power for at least 20 years.  The answer from Bill  
Bruce and other officials has always been, "We tried that that and it  
didn't work."  Or, "We looked into it and it couldn't be done."   
Well, Colonie is doing it and making money.  Now Albany is "seriously  
considering it."  Wonderful.

So there is no reason to accept their "no, we can't do that."  If  
there is a political will, they will do it.  And as we know too well,  
with these bozos the only way to jumpstart their political will is to  
get in their faces and make their lives miserable until they start  
doing what they're paid to do.

-Dan VR


On Jul 14, 2007, at 1:41 PM, James Travers wrote:

> Sheree,
>
> I know of no place to recycle these lamps which do contain a small  
> quantity of mercury.
>
> The State University supposedly has dumpster for recycling  
> fluorescents, but it is for their own waste and not open to the  
> public for their use.
>
> Perhaps someone else knows.
>
> Maybe an email to DGS Commissioner Willard Bruce would get you an  
> answer about what the City does with the many of theirs when it's  
> time for their disposal.
>
> His response to you may be quite revealing.
>
> Jim Travers
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -------------------------
>
> Sheree <sheree at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Where locally is the best place to recycle an older round  
> flourescent light,
> not a CFL? Have we no alternative but to "dump" them?
>
> Is there a local recycling source of info on this and many items  
> that any
> could recommend? Diverting from landfills - people want to, but how is
> hard.
>
>
>
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