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Light bulbs (incandescent and LED)
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In Calgary, put this in the
Black cart — Garbage
Incandescent and LED bulbs go in the black cart (wrap to contain breakage). CFL and fluorescent bulbs are hazardous and go to a drop-off.
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Why the black cart?
Incandescents and LEDs contain no mercury, and their mixed glass-metal-electronics construction isn’t worth separating at municipal scale — so they’re safe, if unglamorous, black cart items. The mercury-bearing CFL is the one that must never go in the cart.
Get it right
- Wrap bulbs in a bit of paper so broken glass doesn’t end up loose in the cart.
- Don’t put any bulb in the blue cart — bulb glass is not container glass.
- Not sure which type you have? Spiral tube = CFL (drop-off); classic pear shape or labelled LED = black cart.
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