I own a business and we recently replaced all of our 8-foot fluorescent lights with more energy efficient LED lights. Now I am finding out the difficulty of disposing of 25, 8-foot tubes. These type of lights contain mercury, so they are not supposed to go in a landfill. In checking around there is only one place locally that will recycle these tubes but at a cost of $0.66 per foot of tube. That makes our cost to just dispose of these tubes at over $100. At a time when our country is supposedly concerned about our environment, they make it very hard and costly for its citizens to actively participate.

If any business out there still uses 8-foot fluorescents, I’ve got some free tubes for you.

Robert Ray

Bowling Green