Start your program with the lamp recycling experts. All fluorescent and HID lamps contain mercury and need to be disposed of carefully and lawfully.

• Never outsourced, NLR’s in-house lamp recycling technology is designed to accept both whole lamps and bulbs, as well as pre-crushed lamps of all kinds and sizes. Through a proprietary process, fluorescent lamps are conveyed into our processor, which then separates the lamps into components of glass, aluminum, plastic and mercury-bearing phosphor powder. Aftermarkets and further recycling procedures finalize the process.
• NLR recycles all linear styles such as 2ft, 4ft and 8 ft fluorescent tubes.
• NLR offers lamp recycling services for both mercury containing and non-mercury lamps and light bulbs (see below…)

Linear Lamps

NLR recycles all linear styles 2ft, 4ft, and 8 ft fluorescent tubes.

CFL and PL

NLR recycles all different styles of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) bulbs and Pin Lamps (PL) bulbs.

HID/HPS

NLR recycles all styles of High Intensity Discharge HID lamps and High Pressure Sodium HPS lamps.

Biax

NLR recycles all biaxial lamps.

U-Shape

NLR recycles all sizes of U-Shape lamps and U-bent bulbs.

Circleline

NLR recycles all different styles of circleline lamps.

Other

NLR recycles other mercury containing lamps like ultraviolet or germicidal lamps.

Hazardous Waste Lamps

Hazardous waste transport also available for crushed lamps. NLR can help recycle your waste from drum-top crushers.

Incandescent

NLR recycles all incandescent bulbs.

LED

NLR recycles LED lamps and bulbs

PAR Flood

NLR recycles all styles of PAR Flood Lamps.

Halogen

NLR recycles all styles of Halogen Lamps.

Recycling lamps is important to keep mercury vapor out of the environment. While not all lamps contain mercury, those that do can pose an environmental and health risk, especially in large quantities. When the mercury in most lamps joins with calcium phosphate powder the potential for exposure widens. Intentionally broken or improperly disposed of lamps release mercury vapor into the atmosphere where it can be either inhaled by people in the vicinity or enters the water cycle returning as rain. The mercury contaminates the water table, our waterways, the fish that swim in them, and ultimately the human bodies of those who consume those fish.