• @PurpleTentacle
    link
    9
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    They contain mercury and are hazardous waste, not recycling. If, or rather when, they break they will contaminate everything around them and are a healthy hazard. So, no, definitely not curbside recycling.

    There should be drop off points in many big box stores for this kind of stuff.

    • @psychothumbs
      link
      English
      01 year ago

      Oh no they’ll contaminate some glass and plastic that have been thrown away!

      • @PurpleTentacle
        link
        01 year ago

        “Oh no, they’ll contaminate a lot of goods that were prepared for recycling and endanger the health of the people involved in that process chain.”

        When corrected, most people don’t double down on their own, accidental, misinformation. The fact that you chose to be defensive and sarcastic instead, speaks a lot about the kind of person who dumps mercury in the recycling bin with the expectation that others will clean it up.

        • @psychothumbs
          link
          English
          01 year ago

          “When corrected” is doing a lot of work there