AndyC_772

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Anyone know what the correct way is to dispose of a failed fluorescent tube?

jjones

get a colleague.

one plays luke skywalker and the other darth vader.

AndyC_772

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Muppet

Seriously - which is worse, binning a tube full of mercury vapour and other nasties, or one of those (rare!) 'unnecessary' journeys that the Govt keeps banging on about, to take it to the dump? (Sorry, 'household waste environmentally friendly touchy-feely recycling facility').

Hammy Hamster

The bin men take mine.

I normally put the defunct one in the box that the new one came in and leave it by the bin.

GaryCat

How do you tell if it's the tube that has gone or the starter thingy.

The Chief

Just replace the starter first and if no luck then its the tube

Starters are as cheap as chips anyway

sparkykev

Ask at an electrical wholesalers, we put the odd ones in the bin, but large quantities we pass back to the wholesalers, who send them off for disposal and charge us 70p per tube.

Daz34

Drop them from a height into a large metal bin

Tiggs

wrap in newspaper, smash..bin....sweep up any mess left.

sorted

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class_A

stick them in a field at night underneath HV cables/pylons

J4CKO

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They are very satisfying to smash, not however when brand new liek the last one I bought, bloody lame VW tailgate struts !