Recycling option for MontCo residents

[keithdb]

I've recently been informed of Recycling Services, Inc, a non-profit based out of Pottstown. While you have to drop off at their facility and need to sort either ahead of time or once you get there, they accept a lot more material than most of the municipal recyclers around here. From their website

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[spoondave]

I've been going to RSI for about two years. Their gate fee has been creeping upwards (it was $5 when I started), but there are relatively few things they don't take.

[spoondave]

Do they take CFL bulbs, do you know? I didn't see them in their list and I've been looking for somewhere that takes them (there is no way they last the multiple years the packaging says they last, grr...)

[spoondave]

Nope, they don't take CFLs...not yet, anyhow. I've done some poking around and haven't yet found any resource for recycling those things. It's a disposal problem that nobody seems to have thought about when the whole "go CFL and save the planet!" push started.

[spoondave]

Check out Stacey's links, below.

[librarian_aviva]

Home Depot will be setting up CFL recycling in their stores: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/business/24recycling.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I shared a link to this in my Facebook in case this link dosn't work right...

Here's also Home Depot's press release (PDF): http://www6.homedepot.com/ecooptions/stage/pdf/cfl_recycle.pdf

I was pretty happy about it, and went and bought new CFLs I needed for the bathroom there!

[spoondave]

Good catch, Stacey, thanks.