Lighting Resources is the nation’s largest bulb recycler delivering environmentally sound processing to businesses and commercial contractors for more than 25 years.
Lighting Resources delivers waste processing and management solutions for all types of bulbs, batteries, PCB and non-PCB ballasts, tritium exit signs, smoke detectors, airbags, mercury-containing devices, and electronic waste.
Recycling bulbs prevents the release of mercury into our environment. Mercury containing bulbs such as CFLs and other fluorescent bulbs can break when thrown into a dumpster, trashcan or compactor, or when they end up in a landfill or incinerator.
Not only do we reclaim glass, metals, and plastic for re-use in manufacturing, Lighting Resources uses high-temp retort ovens to remove mercury from the phosphorous powder in bulbs. We distill the mercury to create uncontaminated mercury for scientific and commercial re-use and create a clean phosphor powder that contains rare earth elements for use in industrial manufacturing.