The Oregon Center for Environmental Health is helping hospitals statewide to establish a recycling program for fluorescent light tubes. The state Department of Environmental Quality says the tubes ...

Today, fluorescent lamps and tubes are found in many homes and commercial buildings. These lamps are gas-discharge lamps that use electricity to excite mercury vapor. The excited mercury atoms produce ...

Wiser Recycling last week launched the “TubeEater,” new mobile machinery aimed at safely recycling end of life fluorescent tubes. The Canadian technology, which Cambridgeshire-based Wiser has ...

The newest program managed by Kane County Recycles will offer residents of Kane County a place to drop off their fluorescent tubes for free. This is for resident-generated tubes only, so businesses ...

New rules on used fluorescent tubes from industry means that thousands of businesses could be generating skiploads of waste which have to be treated as hazardous. Unless the tubes are removed from the ...

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — It’s a message being drummed into the heads of homeowners everywhere: Swap out those incandescent lights with longer-lasting compact fluorescent bulbs and cut your electric use.

Have any fluorescent bulbs, either the long tubes or squiggly compact ones? These days, most consumers are switching to newer LED bulbs, which burn cooler and last longer. But what are you supposed to ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...