These just go out with the other recycling, right?
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These just go out with the other recycling, right?
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Yeah just go ahead and put them in the metal / glass / plastic recycling, they will figure it out on that end with all the others that get thrown in there.
They contain mercury and are hazardous waste, not recycling. If, or rather when, they break they will contaminate everything around them and are a healthy hazard. So, no, definitely not curbside recycling.
There should be drop off points in many big box stores for this kind of stuff.
Oh no they'll contaminate some glass and plastic that have been thrown away!
"Oh no, they'll contaminate a lot of goods that were prepared for recycling and endanger the health of the people involved in that process chain."
When corrected, most people don't double down on their own, accidental, misinformation. The fact that you chose to be defensive and sarcastic instead, speaks a lot about the kind of person who dumps mercury in the recycling bin with the expectation that others will clean it up.
"When corrected" is doing a lot of work there
Makes sense to me. They aren't really just trusting everyone to have already sorted their recycling perfectly, right?