Light Bulb Recycling | Dubai Municipality Hazardous Waste Facility

Light bulbs after it’s life-period are usually thrown away and not recycled, which then ends up in landfills where the chemicals contained within these may leach to the soil and groundwater affecting the environment. There are many types of light bulbs that can be recycled; the raw materials can be recovered and reused. Using recovered materials takes up less energy than it does to produce items with raw material and helps from further mineral mining.

Here are some of the types of light bulbs (and it’s parts) that can be recycled:

Light-Emitting Diode or LED Light Bulbs

LED lights are the most environmentally friendly light bulbs in the market because of their extended lifespan, lack of dangerous chemicals, and based on its energy efficiency rate. LED lights do not contain toxic elements. However, it is made of electronic components such as Diodes, semiconductors, or transformers which could be recycled. LEDs are made of glass (88%), some metals (5%) and other different materials (7%). Some metals contained in LEDs are useful for recycling such as indium, gallium, or some rare-earth element (REE) that you can find in the crust. It’s better to avoid those lights to make their way to landfills.

Fluorescent Lamps

Fluorescent lights are more energy efficient than the incandescent lights. Recycling for Fluorescent lights is crucial, otherwise the mercury and phosphorus content can spill to the environment when disposed of in landfills.

Recycling helps in separating mercury, phosphorus powder, glass, and metals and the same can be reused in new fluorescent lamps.

Compact Fluorescent Light or CFLs

Compact fluorescent light bulbs or CFLs, are more energy-efficient than some other types of bulbs but also contain mercury, which is toxic to the surroundings. Therefore, these should not be disposed in the landfills and need to be recycled by separating glass, metals and other materials such as mercury which can be reused to make new products or light bulbs.

Recycling CFLs not only keeps trash out of landfills but also stops the discharge of hazardous mercury into the environment.

Halogen Light Bulbs

Halogen light bulbs are made of quartz glass that melts at a different temperature and cannot be recycled in the same way as other glass. Like incandescent bulbs, these contain fine wires which are difficult to separate out.

As halogen bulbs do not contain mercury, they are safe to dispose of in bins, but it is better to wrap them up before disposing to prevent sanitation workers from getting hurt and to prevent creating mess in the bin from plastic coverings ripping off, if the bulb is broken.

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Do you know how carton boxes are recycled?

 

Carton box is typically made of paperboard and occasionally corrugated fibreboard. The packaging industry uses a variety of carton types.

Paperboard, which makes up 70–90% of the material used to make cartons, is recyclable just like other types of paper or card. As cartons are made of high-quality materials, it is beneficial to remanufacture them into new items.

At YES Full Circle Solutions, we collect cartons of different composition. The carton boxes are segregated and baled for easy transportation and handling of the materials. The same is then transported to downstream where it is converted to a new finished product.

For every ton of recycled cartons,

• Saves roughly about 5,000 kilowatts of energy and 380-475 gallons of oil and other fossil fuels are roughly saved
• 7,000 gallons of water is saved during the pulping process for manufacturing cardboards.
• 3 cubic yards of landfills is preserved.

Recycling of carton boxes has a positive impact on environment, reduces the need to cut down the trees to produce more of raw materials for cardboard production and hereby becomes a fundamental solution to environmental conservation by preserving the natural resource and reducing the amount of waste that is incinerated or sent to landfill. More energy will be saved by recycling cartons than by creating new ones from scratch.

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Recycle Today to Reserve Resources for Our Future | Circular Economy Solutions

What is Recycling?

Recycling is a sustainable and eco-friendly method of reusing resources and raising product quality. By substituting raw material inputs and rerouting waste outputs outside of the economic system, it seeks to promote environmental sustainability.

Why should we Recycle?

Recycling helps in reducing the volume of solid waste dumped in landfills, freeing up space for the trash that cannot be recycled and conserving the resources.

According to Gulf Business, an average resident in the UAE generates nearly 3kg of waste every day, which is among the highest amounts per capita in the world.

If we do not recycle waste, it ends up in the landfills and it takes hundreds of years for the dumped materials to degrade. Many materials like glass, never decomposes and remains in the landfills forever. The world is already overpopulated and eventually we may run out of space.

Many useful materials that can be recycled and converted as raw material for a new product ends up in landfills if we don’t recycle. By recycling, we are also reusing the energy and resources they hold and is giving a second chance instead of ending up in landfills. Natural resources are not infinite, recycling protects the resources.

How does Recycling Help the Environment?

Recycling not only limits the release of waste to the surrounding but also lowers the emission of greenhouse gases, water pollutants and, it can even conserve energy. Reusing the recovered material to produce new products will lower the waste generation.

Buying recycled material is safe for the environment as it limits our reliance on natural resource for the need of virgin raw materials.

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