{"id":345,"date":"2008-01-23T23:38:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2008\/01\/23\/business-opportunity-cfl-recycling\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T23:38:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:38:19","slug":"business-opportunity-cfl-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Business Opportunity: CFL recycling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what to do with those energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs when they burn out? One shouldn&#8217;t just toss them into the garbage due to the small amount of mercury (~5mg) in each bulb yet it&#8217;s not really apparent what to do with them. Presently, there are a number of pilot programs that collect and hopefully recycle the bulbs, but a sustainable and clear recycling stream has really yet to emerge.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne has to wonder if this is a business opportunity? The Wall Street Journal online has <a href=\"https:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120114002163112121.html\" target=\"_blank\" >a good article discussing the pros and cons of the current state<\/a> of electronics recycling including cfls (ignoring the pejorative title &#8220;The Dark Side of Green Bulbs&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what to do with those energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs when they burn out? One shouldn&#8217;t just toss them into the garbage due to the small amount of mercury (~5mg) in each bulb yet it&#8217;s not really apparent what to do with them. Presently, there are a number of pilot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-5z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}