Light Bulbs!

**Gravitar** · 02-14-2013, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper

Secondly, How to dispose of them...? Well personally I am just a kid so I have no way of driving to recycle them so I just throw them in my trash can which I know is legal where I live but than again, when i get a truck I will be bringing them to a recycling plant.

I don't think you can recycle the glass from lightbulbs, just like you can't recycle the glass from windows panes and drinking glasses. From my understanding, you can only recycle White (Clear), Green, Brown, And sometimes blue colored glass bottles and jars in most cities. It may be different in your city, but I have never seen a city accept window, lightbulb, or drinking glass for recycling.

**Bear** · 02-14-2013, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by Gravitar

I don't think you can recycle the glass from lightbulbs, just like you can't recycle the glass from windows panes and drinking glasses. From my understanding, you can only recycle White (Clear), Green, Brown, And sometimes blue colored glass bottles and jars in most cities. It may be different in your city, but I have never seen a city accept window, lightbulb, or drinking glass for recycling.

Why is that? Are those kinds tempered or something ?

**Gravitar** · 02-14-2013, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Bear

Why is that? Are those kinds tempered or something ?

The glass in drinking glasses and lightbulbs is a different kind of glass and can't be mixed with the glass bottles and jars. I wish it could be recycled, but it would take a tons of it to be worth it to recycle anyway and there's not much in lightbulbs.

**Pnutfarmer** · 02-14-2013, 10:17 PM

To get this thread going with the original question. When I'm full on hauling stuff in or when I'm farming and can't scrap, I stockpile the things I'm going to break down later like computers. Then when it gets slack time or a rain day I'll get a lot of the same type of item together to break down. I find that it goes faster when you can use the same tools and don't have to go hunting for them. Sometimes I'll get going on computers and strip 20 at a time. I have also done this with starter/contactors and breaker panels. One of my future projects is a pile of 50 lbs of breakers that I'll take apart using my drill press to get the rivets out.

I have to agree with the philosophy of "something is better than nothing" and all the small things can add up pretty good. Call me OCD but I simply cannot throw away a light bulb with the aluminum or brass intact.