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uh, I don't know about your local HD, but the one I go to in the Stuy you're lucky if the cashier even makes eye contact with you or otherwise refrains from giving you a dirty look. I would be thoroughly impressed and excited to see these signs there.

ouch. While I get your point, your method seems a little harsh. Drawing attention to the fact that HD should explore other opportunities for getting the word about their CFL recycling is a valid, sensible discussion. However, the negativity in your post seems to be less about this point than about your attitude toward HD in general. As for me, I'm just glad I have somewhere to take my CFL's for recycling, so I'm happy to give a little appreciation to HD for this.

Lighten up on them, Jonathanb. Most other places don't even do what they're doing regarding the recycling of the bulbs.

Chill out...

ditto. I think you're being a bit harsh. I'd be thrilled to see that sign at our Home Depot or anywhere else.

i agree -- we'd been searching for almost a year for a place to recycle our CFL's (and we live in st. louis CITY), so i was absolutely overjoyed when i discovered (on re-nest) this can finally be done locally, free of charge. this is something i want to support 100%, less-than-ideal signage and all.

The link for apartment therapy @ la is detouring to this site.

Anyway, I guess I'm not quite ready for the zeal of the posts on this site. You do live in the real world. I guess it's not enough to be encouraging to enterprises that are trying to do the right thing, you have to bear down on them and tell them they aren't doing nearly enough. Intentions aren't good enough, might as well assume they're taking the bulbs to dump at the nearest body of water.

Wow--count me in as another who is fine with the sign. I tried taking my used CFL's to my local Lowe's in Cincinnati and the customer service rep looked at me like I was crazy for assuming they recycled the bulbs. Ended up hauling them around in the back of my car for a couple of months until I found a place that would take them. Meantime, one of the bulbs broke. Call me the Madhatter.

They literally have hundreds of people in Atlanta who do nothing but suck oxygen and develop sign programs. What you see here is poor execution.

And there really is no excuse....As much as they've invested in the whole "Eco" thingie....P.R. of the bulb recycle program, and this is how it's presented back to the customer.

Typical

They probably gave them one nice sign and the manager at the store had it photocopied to get more people to see that they recycle the bulbs. They might not have been required to do that, i wonder...