Resource Center
Fluorescent Lamp and CFL Collection Sites | EcoLight and Total Reclaim - locations in WA, OR and AK | EcoLights Recycling Facility (Seattle, WA) | » Link to Website | Total Reclaim (Seattle, WA, Portland, OR and Anchorage, AK) | » Link to Website |
| Puget Sound Energy (PSE) - Collection sites in Western Washington | Expanded list of businesses that collect fluorescent lamps. | » Link to Website | Free CFL collection sites. | » Download PDF |
| Bartell Drug – Free CFL collection at all 57 neighborhood drugstores | Bartell Drug Store Locator – search by ZIP code | » Link to Website |
| McLendon Hardware – 6 retail hardware stores in Western Washington | McLendon Hardware Store Locator – search by ZIP code | » Link to Website |
Avista Utilities – Avista offices and partner locations offering free CFL collection
| Free CFL collection sites in Eastern Washington, Idaho and Oregon. | » Download PDF |
Laws and Government
| FEDERAL | | United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) | | | “The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.” | | E-cycle | | | E-waste Fact Sheet 11/2007 | | | Mercury | | | Mercury: Laws and Regulations | | | [ALL STATES] Mercury: State Legislation & Regulations | | | PCB | | | PCBs in Fluorescent Light Fixtures | | | EPA: Drum-top Fluorescent Lamp Crushers 2009 | | | Envirofacts Data Warehouse | |
| State - Washington | | Washington State Dept. of Ecology | | | “…the Dept. of Ecology has three goals: Prevent pollution, Clean up pollution [and] Support sustainable communities and natural resources…” | | Washington Recycles: Electronics | | | Mercury Reduction | | | Environmentally Preferable Product Report - Recycling Fluorescent Lamps | | | Recycling Spent Chloroflurocarbon and Hydrochlorofluorcarbon Refrigerants | | Laws and Rules
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| State - Oregon | | State of Oregon: Dept. of Environmental Quality | | | “The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is a regulatory agency whose job is to protect the quality of Oregon's environment.” | | Electronics (E-Waste) Recycling Program | | | Mercury Information | | | Fact Sheets [all programs] | | | Laws and Regulations | |
| State - Alaska | | Alaska Dep. Of Environmental Conservation | | | “Conserving, improving and protecting Alaska's natural resources and the environment.” |
Conservation and the Environment | Earth 911 | | “Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on the environment that empowers people to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability.” | | | | | | | Natural Resources Defense Council | | “Our mission is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants, and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.” | | | | | | | EcoEarth.info | | “EcoEarth.Info is a one of a kind Environment Portal - with genuine Internet search, cutting biocentric commentary & constant news and link tracking - and dedicated to achieving global environmental sustainability.” | | | | | Thousands of links to information organized by air, land, ocean, sustainability, toxics and water. | |
| Basel Action Network (BAN) | | “BAN works to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis. We work in opposition to toxic trade in toxic wastes, toxic products and toxic technologies, that are exported from rich to poorer countries. Alternatively, we work to ensure national self-sufficiency in waste management through clean production and toxics use reductions” | | | | | Links to information and organizations around the world focusing on toxics, the environment and related issues.. | |
| Greenpeace | | “Greenpeace…acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by catalyzing an energy revolution, defending our oceans, protecting the world’s ancient forests, working for disarmament and peace, creating a toxic free future [and] campaigning for sustainable agriculture…” | | | |
| United Nations Environment Programme | | “To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.” | | | |
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Our commitment to environmental compliance is at the core of everything we do. We take our responsibilities to you, our people, and the environment very seriously. That’s why we have our own Environmental Health and Safety Department to ensure that our operations surpass all federal, state, and local rules and regulations.
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Nationwide, efforts to increase energy conservation and lower operating costs are resulting in the increasing use of fluorescent lamps and compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. The downside: each lamp contains mercury which can be harmful to both humans and wildlife.
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