Needed: yet more recycling bins

Thanks to the Monkman, I now know that cfl bulbs (those handy-dandy save-the-earth last forever dudes) contain MERCURY. Holy shit. Why don’t the packages tell you about the mercury bit? And tell you not to throw them away in regular garbage? Possibly they do tell you, but if so it sure isn’t noticeable.

Monkman linked to this blog about the compact flourescents, which in turn linked to Earth 911, where you can enter what it is you want to recycle, and it will give you the closest center. No big surprises here: the retailers that sell the bulbs won’t send them back for you. Just like all those batteries (and may I say a huge ‘tanks’ to the awesome guys at Batteries Plus, who will take your random container full of dead batteries for recycling).

I fully admit to being an anal-retentive organizer, not that you can tell by looking around my house. Still, the whole CFC thing is definitely sending me into a mini-spin. I will be at Container Store tomorrow, looking for a more stylish storage solution for my smaller recyclables (currently the batteries go in old coffee cans and all ink cartridges, etc. are piled in old ziplocs — all by the back door).

So my out-of-control OCD recycling is entering a whole new phase. Jolly.