<p>Home Depot will accept for recycling compact flourescent bulbs at the service desk. Long tubes are also accepted! I'm standing at the service desk and was just informed ALL Home Depots will do this. <br>
Heh, heh. Lowes will certainly jump on this as well.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 5, 2011 3:04 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Argh. I realize all too well that flourescents are hazardous waste. The<br>
> problemo is that there is no simple way for a private individual to get rid<br>> of them legally.<br>> <br>> -- CHS<br>> <br>> <br>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM, planas <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> **<br>>> Hi<br>>><br>>><br>>> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 09:35 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:<br>>><br>>> On 8/5/11 12:47 AM, Sparr wrote:<br>>> > I've recently come into possession of a large security disintegrator,<br>
>> > designed for shredding things like hard drives and tapes and such. I'm<br>>> > trying to figure out what to do with it. Selling it is, of course, an<br>>> > option, but I was thinking of possibly starting up a small security<br>
>> > business to destroy hard drives for people. Is there a market for that<br>>> > in Atlanta?<br>>> It would make a big difference if your apparatus of mindless destruction<br>>> were mobile. But you are going to have a waste stream like nobody's<br>
>> business; some of that will be leaded solder, which is toxic. One thing<br>>> you could certainly do without too much difficulty would be to separate<br>>> out the ground-up magnets; run the refuse past a piece of iron that gets<br>
>> scraped off periodically. I don't know what all the composition of disk<br>>> drive magnets would be in the field - I'd suspect samarium cobalt and<br>>> neodymium. What you recover could potentially be press-formed into<br>
>> fairly decent magnets, suitable for electricity generation, but as far<br>>> as actually separating out the metals into bulk material with a net<br>>> positive value, I dunno.<br>>><br>>> Possessing this device only makes sense if it's actively being used, so,<br>
>> congratulations on having entered the waste processing business! :)<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Ale mailing listAle@ale.orghttp://<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists athttp://<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>>><br>>> Once you grind up the hard drive you could attempt to recover the metals<br>
>> present using a combination of physical and chemical methods. The metals<br>>> should be a reasonable purity to sell .<br>>><br>>> If limited metal recovery is done you probably will have D- series (unless<br>
>> the EPA has a specific classification) hazardous waste. I do not know the<br>>> current prices for hazardous waste disposal. But when I was handling waste<br>>> disposal I found there was roughly a 10x difference between the charges of<br>
>> non-hazardous waste and a hazardous waste.<br>>><br>>> Off topic stupidity, most people do not realize that fluorescent lights<br>>> should be disposed as a hazardous waste - mercury is the culprit.<br>
>><br>>> --<br>>> Jay Lozier<br>>> <a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Ale mailing list<br>
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