What happens to 'Recycled' Lightbulbs? - (you might be surprised)

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Today we dive deep into what happens to Recycled Lightbulbs. Why do lightbulbs even need to be recycled? This video is NOT sponsored. HUGE thanks to Clean Earth for letting us tour their facility! www.cleanearthinc.com if you are looking to recycle your bulbs you can always check out www.terracycle.com or take your bulbs to a local drop off point at a Lowes, Home Depot, or other hardware store.
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@FinlayDaG33k Год назад

When Zack holds that bottle of liquid mercury, I somehow am kinda worried about a Linus drop happening :s

@shawnalfaro6943 Год назад

bruv, Linus gives me anxiety

@LightningJR Год назад

Uou can see his grip on it with the finger underneath. That wasn't going anywhere.

@Alias_Anybody Год назад

I'm confident that Linus is officially banned from holding 2/3 of the periodic table in his hands.

@praveenmurugesh147 Год назад

What happened?

@BrianHurry Год назад

I can't believe they let him hold it!

@ChristianRB Год назад

These factory tour videos are a new favorite for me.

@EE-mo8wy Год назад

This guy supports Anker which owns Eufy look it's up. Zack knowingly is continuing to support this company even though they spy on Americans. Zack if a fake patriot and you should support his Chanel

@FluffyMugiLand Год назад

its nice that you make these video`s they are interesting and positive we keep improving

@JerryRigEverything Год назад

Thank you!

@Gecmajster123456 Год назад

@@JerryRigEverything elon lover

@russjam121 Год назад

@@Gecmajster123456 random idiot 😂

@Gecmajster123456 Год назад

@@russjam121 totally agree with you, thats your pronoun 🤣

@idontcare7961 Год назад

@@JerryRigEverything "mercury is incredibly toxic to both environment and humans" Get your facts right, if mercury was toxic we wouldnt be using it for tooth fillings. its safe material for human use. Please dont spread fear propaganda about mercury.

@paulfarnsworth4074 Год назад

Thanks for the informative video. One small correction. Most of the current in a fluorescent bulb is carried by argon gas, not by mercury. Electrons from the ionized argon excite mercury atoms, which then emit uv light. The uv light is absorbed by the phosphors, and they in turn give off visible light. That’s why the uv lamp you showed had no phosphor coating. It uses the uv light from the mercury directly.

@alexdrockhound9497 Год назад

and in UV-C tubes they have to use special "quartz" glass (its not actually the mineral quartz) or else the short UV waves would be blocked by the glass as it absorbs those spectra. The black color on many UV tubes are probably a filter to block out visible spectrum light as to not disrupt how the UV looks when you use it to make things fluoresce. The special "quartz" glass they use in these bulbs gets damaged severely by the UVC in just a few hours. It will loose a significant amount of its ability to let through short wave UV light, something like 10-15%. but after the first "burn in" period of the glass, its clarity reduces much more slowly. But over time the bulb will eventually need to be replaced due to the light damaging it to the point it doesnt transmit much UV.

@alexdrockhound9497 Год назад

a lot of "CO2" lasers also have a mix of gasses to make them LASE.

@jonathanodude6660 Год назад

@@alexdrockhound9497 i feel like you still have to include the R when using "laser" as a verb.

@alexdrockhound9497 Год назад

@@jonathanodude6660 "The back-formed verb to lase is frequently used in the field, meaning "to give off coherent light"" "when a laser is operating it is said to be "lasing""

@jonathanodude6660 Год назад

@@alexdrockhound9497 ah. You wrote it as an acronym, which changed its reading such that the meaning was lost. If lase is backformed from laser (the device) rather than LASER (the process) then spelling with capitals would be misleading as the original meaning of the acronym is not relevant to the meaning of the verb; the verb is not an acronym at all and has no reason to be spelled in caps. “Lasering” would have a different connotation and implied meaning, correct? Ie a material could “lase” but only a person could “laser”?

@Evanator404 Год назад

I am loving the influx of "How it's made" type videos from Zack!

@Carljouannet Год назад

Thank you for sharing! These educational videos are incredibly helpful and good for spreading awareness!

@TorIvanBoine Год назад

great video as always. here in norway every shop that sells lightbulbs, and batteries for that matter, are obliged to collect used ones.

@ExperimentIV Год назад

my dad used to work at a lamp plant, and they were very proactive about checking the employees for mercury exposure. they would make you sign your name and keep them on file to compare against past signatures in case they started to get jittery or sloppy, as if you were exposed to a harmful amount of mercury and were poisoned, sloppy motor skills are one of the symptoms. always thought that was interesting. cool to see the process to recycle these, having known a bit of the process to make these kinds of bulbs!

@idontcare7961 Год назад

And then they thought it was good idea to put that toxic metal into ppls tooth fillings.

@marcopare91 Год назад

I work for a collection centre and it's nice to see such a huge amount of everyday house stuff gathered together and know it'll be given new life. Recycling is fundamental.

@BraveRock Год назад

“Today on how it is unmade” This is really cool process!

@WHATSINSIDEFAMILY Год назад

When I was I kid I would sword fight with those long lights until they exploded. was super fun. Turns out probably wasn't super safe...

@JerryRigEverything Год назад

That explains alot Dan.

@happinessiskey2858 Год назад

@@JerryRigEverything agreed, haha. Hopefully they were the LED kind (prolly not due to the age of, well, you know, but here's hoping). Thanks for the videos, Zack! Please do more of them when you're able.

@sakenu16 Год назад

The problem with recycling them is that those places always have a big drop and if you put in a bulb they immediately crack. You showed the bin at end of video and you can see how that is a hazard!

@petergarner5991 Год назад

I did the same as a kid. We didn't care and as you when they exploded, what fun. I grew up in the sixties and into the seventies and we didn't care, nobody did. This about fish is old.

@joshb_1111 Год назад

I love how committed you are to help the environment and educate/entertain us at the same time. This makes for continually great content!

@earthtaurus5515 Год назад

This was really informative and useful. Really concerning about the mercury contamination of fish... not to mention the guidance of reduce of consumption of cans of tuna. One would think there would be stricter regulations federally in place to reduce this contamination.... goes to people really need to get push their elected officials locally and federally in doing the right thing in environmental as well health regulations and not be beholden to lobbyists and corporations.

@thomasandrews9355 Год назад

I bet most people rather their money be spent on something else like gun rights

@MrXzylonx Год назад

@@thomasandrews9355 Wouldn't be much need to spend money on retaining a right if there weren't so many trying to get rid of it. Really is nice we can do both simultaneously though.

@AsaMitakasHusband Год назад

@@thomasandrews9355 i would

@Br3ttM Год назад

The reason fish in particular are a problem is bioaccumulation. Most of the land animals we eat are herbivores, but a lot of fish, especially big ones, are carnivores, and they eat other, smaller carnivores, sometimes several layers deep. Each step up the food chain concentrates any contaminant that can't be filtered out expelled. Material in the ocean flows around, so limiting fishing to cleaner regions only does so much, and people would complain if tuna just ended up being illegal to sell. People who know about this and are concerned can choose other foods that are much lower in mercury, like fish that eat plants, or replacing canned tuna with chicken. Even if we stop adding new pollution globally, things like mercury will hang out in the biosphere for a while, before they end up getting deep enough in sediment to be removed from circulation.

@YounesLayachi Год назад

Radiation can be detected from a safe distance and eventually decays away over time. Mercury doesn't ☠️ it stays forever toxic and *builds up* in food chain

@DavidSigbi Год назад

The effort that goes into recycling these things is kinda satisfying

@joshuajaydan Год назад

Great video! Loved seeing what happens, and the resources to recycle.

@souravagrawal382 Год назад

I like the direction the channel is going. Love to hear about the positives that we can do for the environment.

@TJMartinek Год назад

Thanks for letting me know I could recycle them at Lowes. That's super easy. I switched all my lights to LED a while ago but I'll keep that in mind.

@stilcrazychris Год назад

I like these plant operation videos. Really enjoyed the Ford plant on the Lighting truck. Now would like to see the Chevy Electrictruck & SUV being built. It was very educational. I use to work for Zenith Electronics in Springfield, MO until they moved the plant to Mexico. I miss it a lot. Especially the people, but I love my job too. Thanks Zack for sharing these type of videos & tell your wife hi too. Love your wheelchair business you all are doing. God bless & have a wonderful day, Chris from Missouri

@sakenu16 Год назад

The problem with the places like Lowes and Home Depot to recycle is that the bins for recycle are too big and whenever you put in a bulb they immediately break. And some of them don’t want to take fluorescent bulbs.

@MrRKWRIGHT Год назад

I've had that problem as well. The noise from all that glass breaking is extremely distracting and keeps you from focusing on why you came to the store in the first place. Half the time when you go to talk to an employee, there's a communication problem, not only because of all of the noise but sometimes because the employee is wearing a mask.

@electronics-girl Год назад

Yeah, I asked a Home Depot employee whether they accept fluorescent tubes, and he said yes. I came back to the store with a couple of fluorescent tubes, and another employee told me they didn't accept tubes.

@jonathansage2147 Год назад

The only bulbs they recycle are fluorescent bulbs. None of the others contain mercury. Unfortunately, they often only take compact fluorescent bulbs, not the tubes as they're much more bulky.

@sakenu16 Год назад

@@electronics-girl Exactly this has happened to me. And then my town has a e-waste recycle day, but they too only take household appliances not bulbs because according to them that is not a household appliance. It is all BS!

@incognitotorpedo42 Год назад

At my Home Depot, they have plastic bags for you to put the bulbs in. I've never had a problem with anything breaking. They don't take the long tubes, though. I've seen them in people's trash cans multiple times.

@markbryan9989 Год назад

Thank you for bringing these videos to us. They are very educational and it is nice to know that there are companies that have thought this out and are doing the right thing!

@vincenthumphreys6566 Год назад

Love these videos!! Please keep them going. How recycling happens for every day items and such and factory tours. Merry Christmas.

@ndafarachaitezvi1139 Год назад

Great content as always

@BrianHurry Год назад

I love that you make all different types of videos and I especially love that this wasn't even sponsored.

@obywatelwu5515 Год назад

Quite enlightening video, thx & merry X-mas!

@alanfox8325 Год назад

Thank you so much, I so enjoy these trips to different facilities and the work that goes into first understanding what is happening and then your concise explanation. Keep up the great work.

@AG-td6yc Год назад

Very useful information, thanks Jerry.

@-TheMuffinMan Год назад

Interesting, I never really gave this any thought. I guessed it was only the glass that got recycled.

@rurruth Год назад

I think Led lighting does not have mercury but before being soo popular we have used various tipes of florescent lamps that have warnings in the packege also our old monitors that are non led backlighted uses florescent lamp that has mercury too and have on the back of the panel an warning about the correct dispose of that device.

@TheSpotify95 Год назад

Only certain types of light bulbs actually have mercury in them. Incandescent and halogen lamps, which just contain a filament, do not contain mercury - whereas CFL lamps, fluorescent lamps, discharge lamps (sodium/metal halide/mercury vapor) etc contain mercury that needs to be carefully disposed of. Thankfully, LED lamps do not contain mercury.

@jonathansage2147 Год назад

@@Johnny2Feathers sure... in this not giving this thought means poisoning our food supply. Seems dumb.

@TheHenirik Год назад

@@TheSpotify95 But in the first minute of the video he said halogen bulbs have mercury in them, are you saying Zack is wrong?

@jimbodee4043 Год назад

Informative video Zack thanks 👍 Happy Christmas to you and your family.

@TheMasterOfSafari Год назад

These videos are awesome, thanks for taking the time and effort to do this! :D

@DavidSmith-nl5jv Год назад

Thanks for the great content Zach!! Merry Christmas from Layton Utah!!!!

@LQhristian Год назад

Great coverage!!

@shallawmuhammad468 Год назад

It's very nice and educational to see such videos in your channel, this was really informative for me.. Thank you for sharing it with us.

@port9.000 Год назад

Really awesome that they open the machines for you to see what's going on inside. Please make more videos like this

@beckergrey Год назад

Thanks Zack, for also spitting facts like FDA recommendation to not have more that one can of Tuna per week 😅 Also, great job on covering this!

@joez.2794 Год назад

Yeah, that was impetus for me to finally check how much higher in mercury the "no added salt" white albacore tuna I'd been giving my cats occasionally was (it's almost cheaper than canned cat food & same sodium!). Turns out it's *3X* regular tuna! I knew it might be a little higher, but how are they even allowed to sell this?!?

@desther Год назад

@@joez.2794 Tbh pets are not that protected and companies are allowed to sell real crappy food that would be banned if it were to humans.

@joez.2794 Год назад

@@desther This isn't pet food tho - it's grocery store Starkist tuna.

@benjaninja Год назад

Love these videos. There is still hope for a better future! I didn't know I could recycle these at Lowe's, will definitely do that in the future!

@dwightl5863 Год назад

I really feel if the store sells it they should recycle it. I tried recycling two round fluorescent lamps at Menards within the past year. They would not because they are round. But they did sell me two replacement round lamps. I'll give Lowes a try if and when I go there and remember the lamps.

@AMVH2012 Год назад

I had no idea some of my light bulbs had mercury in them. Thanks for this video Zack, I'll be recycling any of my florescent bulbs from here on in.

@justin_time Год назад

This is super important. Thanks for sharing!

@aelaan12 Год назад

I never knew, but now I do. This facility is amazingly clean for working on such dangerous material. Way to go Clean Earth and thanks Zack!! Merry Christmas.

@curtisbme Год назад

"amazingly clean for working on such dangerous material." and that is exactly why it is so clean.

@ashkurdin Год назад

Awesome content! Thank you, Zach!

@GhostinTube Год назад

I hope you do more videos like these. Coz we enjoy listening to you.

@moonfther Год назад

Good coverage of the recycling process, very informative

@Mdwells2944 Год назад

Thanks for this video, always wondered about this!!

@weekendstuff Год назад

Nice to see and understand the process. Thanks for showing.

@paulwolapaye7210 Год назад

This is what surprise me Jerry, whenever you are talking about something new in your videos, it seems like you have already done this as your major. Like you already knew it. Thanks man, you motivate me all the time.

@mikeE997 Год назад

More recycling with Jerry please

@1itoasif Год назад

Brilliant video.. please do more of these.

@maurilioresendiz4631 Год назад

These videos like this are amazing where your channel is headed. However, we need an update on the whisper project.

@simonleung9013 Год назад

Thank you for bringing awareness to this.

@RebellionASG Год назад

I like this sort of video. Using your platform to educate people about recycling and other critical environment issues is very important, and hopefully impactful. Thanks!

@iaam117 Год назад

Very awesome to see people doing due diligence to clean up our mess. Thanks Mr Everything!!!!!!! For the great "enlightenment" of the light bulb issue.

@bradbeckett3800 Год назад

Love these videos! Awesome stuff

@echobeefpv8530 Год назад

Very interesting and informative !! Thanks !!

@JTL-DK Год назад

I would Love to watch more videos of this kind, Zack is an Awesome Story Teller

@benderbi Год назад

Always interesting and useful information 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@sangeethravichandran6177 Год назад

You can explore making videos about factory tours.. they are always interesting. Hoping more like these come along!

@MatthieuVion Год назад

Super interesting, I hope you'll make more videos about recycling :)

@gregsimpson621 Год назад

I love these recycling videos! Almost everyone I know doesn't recycle their light bulbs. Cans and scrap Iron, yes. But not bulbs. We need not only more drop off centers but more warehousing that contains this type of equipment to extract the mercury. Extremely informative!

@TeodorSobczak Год назад

That was awesome content. Thank you.

@DeeplyStill 11 месяцев назад

Really interesting video. Thanks!

@didellittle Год назад

This is the industry I work in (hazmat/haz-waste solutions) so thanks for bringing this to more people's eyes. I am glad to see more people will realize that their lightbulbs are can and should be recycled instead of ending up in a landfill. Depending on your state, most will run household hazardous waste events where you can drop off lightbulbs as another great solution for disposal.

@GmasterP Год назад

Merry Christmas to you and your family sir. Keep up the good content love from Scotland

@js267 Год назад

Thanks for sharing your light(s) this Christmas!

@Zephyrus006 Год назад

The vaporization and subsequent cooling is more expensive in terms of energy consumption why they are not using alternative chemical separation techniques?. great video looking for more industrial content like this 🤩

@stevechamberland6657 Год назад

really enjoying the reach out into this different kind of content

@Monica_22 Год назад

Great video. Much love from Kenya Africa

@johnthomas2970 Год назад

Thanks for covering the recycling of CFLs. They are something that more people need to be aware of regarding their dangers and wasted resources

@jonny555ive Год назад

Very interesting Zack, thanks for the education on recycled light bulbs, not something I would go looking for but it was fun to watch and I learned something. Take care, happy holidays to you and your family.

@starboy001 Год назад

I always have had the concern with cCFL bulbs. And after watching this, now I can recycle them. ♻️

@Braandn Год назад

Thank you for always writing converted units in the videos

@Cemi_Mhikku Год назад

Growing up with PBS made me a sucker for 'how it's made' type clips. Well done on channeling that energy.

@Private-GtngxNMBKvYzXyPq Год назад

Thank you for sharing.

@float32 Год назад

Yes! More factory type tours please!!!

@SuXApate Год назад

Hi Zack, maybe you could also do a video about textile recycling someday. Fast fashion is a huge problem we will be facing in the future, since the recycling methods in large scale are limited (especially for textile blends). For example if there is elastane in your clothing, it is most likely not being recyled and ends up on landfills or is incinearted. Therefore, less than 1% of textile waste is recycled to become a new fibre or yarn for clothing. Maybe you can reach out to a recycling facility for textiles and get your audience an understanding on the difficulties and possible soultions on this subject. Cheers Lukas

@freedomisntfree_44 Год назад

Love these calm, cool and collective videos 🤙🏽

@vdubvance Год назад

I work for a sign company, We have a bulb muncher, Its a big contraption that locks onto a 50 gallon drum. You stick a large bulb in and it munches it down, the most satisfying machine in the shop...

@skygh Год назад

Good report!

@mfx1 Год назад

Aluminium can be magnetically separated using eddy current separators, the prongs looked like brass but could have been plated.

@2chap Год назад

Great video. I’ve learned a lot. Thanks!

@6six9nine74 Год назад

Very interesting content!

@danielcollier4401 Год назад

Merry Christmas to you and your family

@RealRameshBabu Год назад

I love these kinda videos it reminds me of my time in Engineering where went for Industrial Visit, thanks Zack !

@grayzelfx Год назад

I love these videos!!!

@pravinkr Год назад

Good work 👍

@zorogates69 Год назад

Nice content 👍🏼💪🏼

@jnub Год назад

great video, i love hearing about this sort of thing

@Diablo20149 Год назад

Thanks for every intel about techs till now

@akbaromar2209 Год назад

Great video with lots of information

@jdyahoo Год назад

keep up with the philanthropic work. It was an eye-opener with a great awareness

@macfanguy Год назад

Awesome video!

@awesomeadamfrom2099 Год назад

Awesome job zack.

@wojciechturek1601 Год назад

Awesome content

@DE4DLYX4SS4SS1N Год назад

Great video!!

@lourias Год назад

Thank you for this Public Service Announcement. I had no idea that Lowe's or Home Depot have recycling stations for bulbs that contain toxic material.

@scottthomas5999 Год назад

Great information.

@tarekmahmudbhuiyan7368 Год назад

Fantastic video. Highly educating as well.

@BartlettTFD Год назад

Jerry, Thanks so much for providing this most interesting mercury harvesting. I remember collecting it from old mercury switches many decades ago. I remember the U.S. Government banning those silent mercury wall switches so many of us had in our homes, at that time!

@kentaro2121 Год назад

I appreciate to have this kind of video, so we know where we can “properly” dispose. Also, it is fun to watch. Reverse version of how to make.

@AlanLee238 Год назад

Nice to get to learn about light bulb recycling and raise awareness in society about this topic. Thanks Zack!

@RayanMufti Год назад

Thank you for an insightful video. I enjoy those much more than phone tests. Can you please make a video about your eclectic Humvee? Eager to know the final result