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 ...

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 ...

Happy February! My New Year’s resolution is to try to help us all recycle more in 2024! I wanted to focus this month on items that can be recycled that you may not know about. Paper envelopes with ...

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 ...

In order to help small businesses properly recycle their used fluorescent lamps (fluorescent bulbs or tubes), there will be a used fluorescent lamp collection on Tuesday, May 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ...

To more efficiently recycle fluorescent tubes, which contain toxic chemicals including mercury, about 2,000 shops islandwide which sell the product will begin to form a new recycling system, the ...