[crude77]

I was waiting on someone to mention the mercury. I have heard that you can not just throw these bulbs out with your normal trash because of the mercury. They have to be taken to special sites that are prepared to handle the mercury-or so I've heard.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Our dump recycling center requires that fluorescents be put in a special container. In the case of long tubes it's pretty hard to sneak them into the trash dumpster so compliance is probably high. However, with these little bulbs, I'm sure that a lot are going to end up in the BFI dumpster just because people are going to chuck them into their wastebaskets.