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Light bulbs are those essential products in our homes to illuminate all rooms and give them life. Like all electrical products, light bulbs have been evolving with the aim of extending their useful life and reducing electricity consumption. For this reason, there are several types of light bulbs that are precisely classified by their energy consumption, their hours of useful life or the amount of light they give. The LED bulbs They are, without a doubt, the most sustainable on the market Because they do not contain tungsten or mercury, they have the longest useful life of all and consume significantly less than all the previous ones, so they represent two clear advantages: savings on your bill and care for the environment.
1 Where can we throw the light bulbs?
It can be argued that light bulbs, because they may contain glass components, are placed in green containers, but this is not true. In addition to glass, light bulbs have many other components that must be separated before handling. That's why the bulbs have to go directly to a particular place: a clean spot. To facilitate this mission and properly recycle this waste, associations such as Ecoembes, or especially AMBILAMP (a non-profit organization that aims to develop a system for collecting and treating this waste) have also established other possible collection points for used light bulbs, where any citizen can take them. Generally, these points can be found at distributors or electrical stores (such as hardware stores, lighting stores or supermarkets), and any citizen can bring their old light bulbs and contribute to the recycling of fluorescent, low-consumption, discharge bulbs or LEDs.
2 How are light bulbs recycled?
The light bulb recycling process begins with the separation of the materials that make them up. Mercury and phosphorus are separated after the distillation process for later safe storage. Plastics are sent to plastic recycling plants, and glass to cement plants, glass and ceramic industries, and metal foundries. All this will give life to new objects.
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