TV/COMPUTER MONITOR/LIGHT BULB DISPOSAL

A Cathode Ray Tube, abbreviated “CRT”, is the main component in many television sets, computer monitors, video game machines, video cameras, oscilloscopes and radar displays.  These items frequently exhibit the hazardous waste toxicity characteristic for one or more metals and are not acceptable for disposal in landfills.

Allied Waste partners with Southeast Recycling Technologies to assist our customers in the proper handling of these waste streams.  For more information about the services they provide, click http://www.recyclebulbs.com/ or see the general list below.

The following generally identifies the post-consumer recyclable materials managed by SRT at one or more of its facilities:

Discarded Mercury-Containing Lamps (or “MCL”) – These include bulbs and tubs containing mercury from fluorescent, mercury vapor, metal halide, high pressure sodium, high-intensity discharge, neon, and other electric lights.  Most mercury-containing lamps exhibit the hazardous waste Toxicity Characteristic for mercury and are classified as  universal waste” mercury-containing lamps.  Mercury- containing lamps may be received and handled in either whole or crushed form.

Discarded Mercury-Containing Equipment (or ‘MCE”) – This includes devices other than lamps and batteries (e.g, thermostats, manometers, barometers, flow meters, mercury light switches, mercury regulators, pressure relief gauges, water treatment gauges, gas safety relays), or the parts (e.g., ampules) of such devices, that contain elemental mercury integral to its function.  Such mercury-containing equipment will typically exhibit the hazardous waste Toxicity Characteristic for mercury and will be classified as   “universal waste” mercury-containing equipment.

Discarded Batteries – Typically dry cell batteries of household/commercial size, these may be of any chemical type.  Batteries which exhibit the hazardous waste Toxicity and/or Corrosivity Characteristics (which describe almost all batteries to be received by the facility) are classified as “universal waste.

Discarded Electrical Lighting Ballast – These may or may not contain PCBs, and are typically not regulated as either hazardous wastes or PCB articles.

Discarded Electronics – This includes computer and other electronic equipment or components thereof (e.g., monitors, CPUs, keyboards, printers, scanners, televisions, CD/DVD recorders, cathode ray tubes, circuit boards).  Such equipment will frequently exhibit the hazardous waste Toxicity Characteristic for one or more metals (e.g., lead, chromium, cadmium, silver), and it is expected that electronics will eventually be classified and regulated as a universal waste by EPA and Tennessee.  Currently, the TDSWM has by policy stated that electronics bound for recycling are commercial products and therefore not a solid waste or hazardous waste.