Fluoro globes and tubes

Including: Fluoro/CFLs, incandescent, LED and halogen globes. 

These CANNOT go in your household bins or to landfill.

Household lights (fluoro/CFL, incandescent, LED, halogen) can be dropped off for FREE at one of the locations below or at a hazardous waste collection site (below).

• any Mitre 10 store across South Australia
• IKEA (IKEA lights only)
• Aberfoyle Community Centre
• P&T Recycling, Seaford
• Woodcroft Community Centre
• Willunga Environment Centre

No commercial quantities are accepted.

Common household light types:

• Incandescent bulb: an old style light bulb banned for sale in Australia since 2007
• Standard fluorescent lamp (linear or circular tube)
• CFL - Compact fluorescent lamp (bulb)
• LED – Light emitting diode
  Smart bulbs are LED bulbs that can be wi-fi connected for remote activation
• Halogen lamp (bulb): used as spotlights or floodlights

You can take your unwanted paint and household chemicals to the Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton. Ph: (08) 8295 5077. Open 7 days.

Important note: Broken fluoro tubes WILL NOT be accepted. Special caution needs to be taken when disposing and cleaning up broken tubes and globes.

Broken fluorescent lights

Fluorescent lights contain a small amount of mercury inside the glass tube, so if you accidentally break one, it needs to be disposed of correctly by:

• turning off your heating and cooling
• opening doors and windows to naturally ventilate the room
• carefully sweeping it up wearing disposable rubber gloves
• wrapping it in paper and disposing of it in your rubbish bin.

Source: www.sustainability.vic.gov.au

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