CFL Bulbs Accepted at Various Ace Hardware Stores
Consumers in Great Falls, Montana were getting burned out looking for a place to recycle their CFL bulbs until Ace Hardware stores began accepting them this month.
The Environmental Protection Agency, Montana Department of Environmental Quality and local utilities are funding the program, according to an article in the Great Falls Tribune.
Various stores in Montana, Utah and South Dakota are taking part in the project.
Ace Hardware stores are individually owned and not all stores accept CFL bulbs, but the trend is spreading. Stores in many states, including Colorado, Arizona and Illinois, will take them.
CFL bulbs should not be simply tossed in the trash because they contain a small amount of recycle CFL bulbs in your area, use Earth 911′s Recycling Locator.
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compactfluorescent
posted on May 31st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
In Dayton Ohio Leveck Lighting Products Aceepts CFL Bulbs
gmesa
posted on January 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
What does CFL stand for? As a journalism major, you should know better than to use acronyms without defining them first.
Jennifer Berry
posted on January 5th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Hi GMesa,
Thanks for your feedback. CFL stands for “compact fluorescent lamp.” Since CFLs are a topic that we discuss regularly here on the site, we don’t always define them. Also, CFL is an accepted acronym, similar to ATM (Automated Teller Machine) or SCUBA (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus), where users generally know the reference but may not know what it stands for.
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