HOW TO DISPOSE OF OLD LIGHT BULBS

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old light bulbs dispose
Neapolitan professor Bellavista DOC used to store light bulbs and then throw them off the balcony at New Year's. These produced a bang similar to firecrackers, but they were much cheaper and less dangerous. Since the 1980s, the time has passed and Professor Bellavista is now of the idea that bulbs that are no longer working should not be thrown from the balcony, but disposed of with care.
The light sources today feed a market of 130 million pieces of fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps, LED lights and incandescent bulbs, now almost in disuse given the high costs of production and consumption.
Disposal as for almost all materials, is regulated by the current dispositions to safeguard the environment, but also the economic implications of the material of consultation are not negligible: in 2016 over 97% of the disused bulbs have been recovered. As evidence of the business related to the collection of exhausted light bulbs, there is the constitution of numerous consortia for the recovery and disposal of these.
The old incandescent bulbs are composed of glass, copper and an inseparable tungsten filament and should, therefore, be thrown into the appropriate containers of the consortia or ecological islands.
In any case, they are not listed among the materials on the WEEE list (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), was, however, the latest generation lamps and fluorescent tubes (neon) are to be disposed of.
In particular the item R5 of the WEEE lists fluorescent tubes and lamps, discharge lamps, sodium vapor lamps, led lamps and metal halide lamps. All energy-saving lamps, with the exception of LEDs, contain mercury, even in small quantities, and are therefore part of those products that are highly contaminating for the environment. Mercury is considered a definitive pollutant, that is permanent to the point that it has recently been banned and replaced by other materials where possible (modern thermometers contain gallium).

The incandescent and halogen not included on the list and would not be subject to a separate collection. However, even if not compulsory, depositing them in the appropriate containers at the ecological islands remains a due act towards the environment, a gesture of civilization.
Under the R4 item of the WEEE together with the small household appliances, computer equipment, consumer products, the list mentions the luminaires, referring to bedside lamps, lamp holders, and other appliances equipped with built-in lights, and everything not specified in the other lists. To this last item could be assimilated the many chino series such as laser toys and other devices equipped with lights, however containing irreplaceable alkaline batteries, which in turn contain nickel, cadmium, mercury, lithium, zinc and other heavy metals.
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