• PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world
    101·
    11 months ago

    They contain mercury and are hazardous waste, not recycling. If, or rather when, they break they will contaminate everything around them and are a healthy hazard. So, no, definitely not curbside recycling.

    There should be drop off points in many big box stores for this kind of stuff.

      • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        “Oh no, they’ll contaminate a lot of goods that were prepared for recycling and endanger the health of the people involved in that process chain.”

        When corrected, most people don’t double down on their own, accidental, misinformation. The fact that you chose to be defensive and sarcastic instead, speaks a lot about the kind of person who dumps mercury in the recycling bin with the expectation that others will clean it up.