FLUORESCENT LAMPS, BALLASTS & CFL's
How to Manage Fluorescent Lamps, Ballasts & CFL’s
Regulatory history: On July 6, 1999 EPA added hazardous waste lamps to the federal list of "universal wastes". Hazardous waste lamps are any lamps that are characteristically hazardous. That is, they fail the TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure). This includes fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high-pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps, if they are characteristically hazardous. Fluorescent lamps are hazardous because they contain mercury. The effect of this regulation is that, in Pennsylvania, all fluorescent lamps, if hazardous, must be managed by businesses as either a universal waste or manifested as hazardous waste. Lamps from households are not subject to these requirements because household waste is excluded from regulation as hazardous waste at 40 CFR 261.4(b)(1) which is incorporated by reference in the PA regulations.
Options: Below are some options for recycling fluorescent lamps, ballasts and CFL’s. Although these options are aimed at businesses, residents who want to recycle these items can also take advantage of these programs. The programs below vary in price.
York County residents can also bring fluorescent lamps, ballasts and CFL’s to the York County Solid Waste Authority’s free annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program, held the first Saturday in May. Fluorescent lamps, ballasts and CFL’s that come from a household (not from a business), are considered by the PA Department of Environmental Protection to be household waste. They can therefore be placed out with regular garbage where they will be managed at the York County Resource Recovery Center, a state of the art waste-to-energy facility. For more information, please call the Authority at 717-845-1066.
Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Information from the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP): http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/universal/14083/fluorescent_lamp_recycling/589614
DEP’s List of lamp recyclers: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/universal/14083/fluorescent_lamp_recyclers/589613
Schaedler Yesco
850 Smile Way York, PA 17404
Phone: 717-843-9991
Description of Program: http://www.sydist.com/Services/tabid/62/Default.aspx
Contact: Sarah
Veolia Environmental Services (Businesses ONLY)
105 Willow Springs Circle York, PA 17402
Phone: 215-289-3700
Pricing: http://lamprecycling.veoliaes.com/ordering/usrp-order-form?pid=81
AERC Recycling Solutions
2591 Mitchell Ave Allentown, PA 18103
Phone: 610-797-7608
Web: http://www.recyclekit.com/downloads/RecycleKits_Brochure.pdf
Waste Management – Lamp Tracker
Web: https://www.wmlamptracker.com/howlamptracker.cfm
SYLVANIA Recyclepak
Web: http://www.sylvania.com/Recycle/LampandBallastRecycling/RecyclingforBusiness/default.htm
 York County Resource Recovery Center
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