From: "John Beamish" 

Two minds with the same thought.  I emailed our councillor (knowing she'd
pass the question along to the recycle people in Mississauga) and learned
what you did:  Compact fluorescents must be disposed of separately (HHW -
household hazardous waste).

And, for the time being, you have to take them to the recycle site.
Mississauga isn't big enough for the "Toxic Taxi" (great name).

Also, we finally got green recycling.  The bins were dropped off last week.

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:11:35 -0500, Dave Ings  wrote:

> Prompted by the discussion here this week, I noticed that (local)
> packaging
> of compact floursecent bulbs clearly states that they contain mercury and
> should be disposed of "appropriately". I also notice that my local
> recycling
> program requires that disposal of used bulbs requires a special trip
> must be
> made to the hazardous materials depot:
>
> http://www.toronto.ca/garbage/fluorescent.htm
>
> Of course most people won't do this, at least until the word gets out, so
> the result of all the Al Gore publicity etc etc might be a net increase
> in
> the amount of mercury going into landfills.
>
> Given mercury hangs around in the environment essentially forever, all I
> can
> say is what a questionable "solution" this compact
floursecents seem to
> be.

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