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Home Depot kicks off CFL lightbulb recycling


Big box hardware giant Home Depot has started a national recycling program for compact flourescent light bulbs at all 1,973 U.S. stores.

The company also plans to replace all the incandescent bulbs in its light fixture showrooms with CFLs, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports, in an initiative expected to save the retailer $16 million a year in energy.

Home Depot claims its program is the first of its kind for a U.S. retailer. This CFL recycling program follows a similar program Home Depot started at its stores in Canada in November 2007.

Consumers can bring their burned out bulbs to the Home Depot return desk, and they will be turned over to an environmental management company for recycling.

bizjournals: Home Depot begins CFL recycling program

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CRADLE-TO-CRADLE
A phrase invented by Walter R. Stahel in the 1970s and popularized by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their 2002 book of the same name. This framework seeks to create production techniques that are not just efficient but are essentially waste free. In cradle-to-cradle production all material inputs and outputs are seen either as technical or biological nutrients. Technical nutrients can be recycled or reused with no loss of quality and biological nutrients composted or consumed. By contrast cradle to grave refers to a company taking responsibility for the disposal of goods it has produced, but not necessarily putting products’ constituent components back into service.


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