It's Imperative to Recycle CFLs, LED Lightbulbs, and Incandescents

Compact fluorescent lightbulbs and LED lightbulbs, for all their energy efficiency, qualify as hazardous waste by California standards when the end comes. Copper, zinc, gold, silver, mercury, phosphorus, barium, chromium, antimony, yttrium, and aluminum are examples of what can be recycled from CFLs and LEDs in the extraction process. 

So, while they are much more energy-saving during their lifetime, compared with incandescents, they have a far greater toxicity potential on the back end. Read the unpleasant details HERE.

That's why it's so important when they burn out -- don't trash 'em  -- recycle them. 

In Northbrook, your recycling options for CFLs, LED lightbulbs, AND incandescents are on the first Tuesday of every month at the garage behind the Village Hall.