Light Bulbs!

**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.