Let the stores that promote and sell hazardous products, including the new compact fluorescent lights, provide space for collecting the waste. Many areas do not have disposal sites that are affordable or within an easy drive. If stores that sell large numbers of (or earn a large percentage of profit from) aerosol cans, batteries, fluorescent lights, etc. would collect their remains, government agencies could remove and properly dispose of them. This would be more efficient than having the population at large trying to locate a dump site or, as often happens, throwing hazardous waste out with their household. trash.
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In addition, make them responsible for the packaging and such.
Why not add a recycle fee to the product when it is purchased, like cans & bottles?
It would still need to go someplace.
By making the store take it, it makes it easier for the consumer to dispose of it there, rather than end up throwing it in the trash because the proper disposal facility is too far out of their way,
True, but the "make the store take it" model is harder to organize, so the recycle center concept might be easier to adopt. If that "thing" had a value of 10$ or whatever, not many would go out in the garbage.
There should definitely be more solutions to the issues of hazardous waste. More recycling if at all possible. I feel like battery recycling is something that should be available.
If you added cost to them, people would be discouraged form buying the.
As complex as setting up an instore recyling program may be, it is better than spent CFL bulbs ending in normal landfill
There's a big stir about CF bulbs; they're great for saving energy, yeah, but I'm not sure that people are thinking about the Hg problem