DALLAS — Snappy Salads wants to help North Americans lose 30,000 pounds by recycling energy-efficient fluorescent household light bulbs.
Beginning Jan. 2, Snappy Salads will begin accepting unbroken compact fluorescent light bulbs at both Dallas locations.
CFLs and other fluorescent light bulbs that are not properly disposed of release mercury into the environment through breakage and leakage. An estimated 670 million fluorescent light bulbs are discarded each year in the United States, which equates to two to four tons of mercury per year discarded into the environment.
If properly recycled, virtually all components of a CFL can be reused, most notably, the mercury can be made into new fluorescent light bulbs and other mercury-containing devices.
