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Flipping the Switch

Published Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Increasing energy costs coupled with decreasing retail prices has brought the use of household compact fluorescent lights (CFL) into the mainstream. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 397 million CFLs were shipped in 2007 — a 1,790 percent increase from 2000. Clearly, the use of CFLs in American homes has been a success. However, the recycling of spent household CFLs has been a failure. While an accurate household recycling rate is not known, two studies have estimated the rate to be between 2 and 6.7 percent. If these estimates are accurate, most intact CFLs become municipal solid ...

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