Today, fluorescent lamps and tubes are found in many homes and commercial buildings. These lamps are gas-discharge lamps that use electricity to excite mercury vapor. The excited mercury atoms produce ...

Have any fluorescent bulbs, either the long tubes or squiggly compact ones? These days, most consumers are switching to newer LED bulbs, which burn cooler and last longer. But what are you supposed to ...

Under the terms of an enforcement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the City of Yonkers, N.Y., has initiated a program to recycle fluorescent light bulbs, as well as light ...

Q: Help! My town’s hazardous waste drop-off day was last month and I missed it. Now I have three or four CFL bulbs to recycle and nowhere to drop them off. I can’t drop it off at another county’s ...

Fujisash Co. logistics subsidiary Fuji Sogyo Inc. has been working with a Minnesota-based manufacturer of fluorescent-bulb-recycling equipment to develop related technology. The two companies have ...