Does anybody know what to do with used incandescent light bulbs? Intuitively, I would think light bulbs couldn't be disposed with regular trash. The glass could be dangerous when it shatters in the trash, so I would at least be more comfortable depositing the bulbs in a sharps container. Also, it seems like the glass and the tungsten could be recycled somehow. After changing all of my old light bulbs for CFLs at the beginning of the year, I've been looking around to figure out what to do with the used bulbs.
It seems like nobody in Champaign-Urbana knows about light bulb recycling. Most of the information online is about CFL recycling due to the small amount of mercury that they contain, but there is virtually nothing about incandescent recycling. I've asked people at Loews, Home Depot, and even Strawberry Fields, but nobody seems to know. If anyone out there knows more about this topic, please let me know and I can acknowledge you on this post.
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