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
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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""
@@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”?
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.
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!
@@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.
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!
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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
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...
WOW, I'm impressed with your professionalism and your natural host abilities. You're video's on recycling, etc... should be featured on television for all to see. Keep up with the great research and content. Thanks
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 🤩
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!
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.
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.
This is a great, educational video. I bought a house a couple years ago and I have a ton of tube fluorescent bulbs I need to get rid of, now I have a better idea of where I can go and why I shouldn't just shatter them and throw them in the trash lol
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.
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.
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?!?
I found this video very educational and how great a facility like this can keep us all safe while recycling glass, aluminum and recapturing mercury all to be reused again. It gives me hope for mankind and the future. Thanks for sharing this knowledge Zack.
Got 4 55 gallon drums and 2 5 gallon buckets in my garage from the mercury I've collected over the years neat stuff to experiment with as long as it's handled right.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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.
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!
Thanks Jerry I watched your previous video regarding the Ford 150 and I was very disappointed to see all the staff members with pretty much no personal safety protection!!! I watched this current video I can see everyone waring protection, maybe in another states, other company other policy but good to see this on this recycling process:)
Nice job done, thank you! I just realized that I did not see anymore energy saving bulbs to buy anymore, but instead the LED lamps which I personally prefer and not just because of all the fancy settings you can do. Even almost 30 years ago in school (Austria) we had the technician class and experimented with LED as light source, but when the question came up, why we do not use it already, because its cheaper, better and last much longer.. no one could answer it, or did not wanted ;) Anyway, good stuff, great video! Thanks alot
Practical blue LEDs (required for white LEDs) were basically invented in 1993. It wasn't until the 2000s that LEDs started to become remotely affordable for general illumination.
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!
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!
This was very informative. I’d never given a second thought to just throwing these bulbs in the garbage because I thought the amount of mercury was insignificant. But seeing you holding that jar of mercury makes me realize that those small amounts can really add up. Now I’ll start recycling the fluorescent bulbs instead of just tossing them in the garbage where they end up in the ocean. I LOVE seafood.
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.
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.
Very well explained and very interesting to know this might make people think twice before they putting there bulbs in the bin it's better to recycle ♻️
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.
The large round clear bulb is not specifically refered to as an HID. It's either metal halide or high pressure sodium. They still require a ballast but it's not a conventional modern HID
Recycling processes are so interesting, I wish we could streamline our waste collection to recover as many useful materials as possible. Sorting your waste really doesn’t seem difficult, I wish everyone did it.
Nice to find you again as I lost you shortly after you got the prototype done. I enjoyed bouncing the ideas back and forth. That elevator install looked expensive when you could have simply built one like I did for my shop.
Great video Zack - what people don't know is that at 0.7 mg per kg, there is enough mercury in just one adult bigeye tuna to make over 100 CF lightbulbs. 😞 You could almost mine them for it! As for the effects of mercury, the youtube video "Mercury Poisoning - The Minamata Story" will give you nightmares.. Most of the mercury in our environment comes from burning coal, which is another really good reason for getting rid of it.
When I was a kid in grade school the teachers allowed raw liquid mercury to be passed around from student to student as a "science demonstration" of some sort. We'd roll it around on our hands and look at it up close while admiring its strange beauty. At the end of the demonstration the last student to handle the mercury would deposit any tiny amount remaining back into the bottle from which it was originally dispensed. By that time the quantity had decreased dramatically from the amount initially poured into the first child's hands. I asked my parents if I could have some mercury of my own but they told me "No, because it's probably expensive and you don't need it".
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.
That's a great video, so many millions of old bulbs went into the regular landfilling the USA and UK over the years among lots of other nasties like the old radioactive smoke detectors etc..
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
I loved playing with Mercury as a kid. We got old thermometers, broke the glass and then we would hit the Mercury with a hammer. It would fly everywhere but it always stayed as small droplets. This is what we did for fun in the 60s
Hammer? You're a madman. :-) I accidentally spilled a drop in my room and it broke into a thousand tiny balls. Cleaned up what I could with tape, but there were some sleepless nights thinking I might've condemned our house/neighborhood until I could get to the library. Ah, the days before Google 🙂
@@joez.2794 In the sixties nobody cared. Things are different now. This is what people have problems with, times have changed. Alot of things that were allowed then are frowned upon today. Take smoking, nearly everyone smoked but today its frowned on.
These factory tour videos are a new favorite for me.
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
When Zack holds that bottle of liquid mercury, I somehow am kinda worried about a Linus drop happening :s
bruv, Linus gives me anxiety
Uou can see his grip on it with the finger underneath. That wasn't going anywhere.
I'm confident that Linus is officially banned from holding 2/3 of the periodic table in his hands.
What happened?
I can't believe they let him hold it!
its nice that you make these video`s they are interesting and positive we keep improving
Thank you!
@@JerryRigEverything elon lover
@@Gecmajster123456 random idiot 😂
@@russjam121 totally agree with you, thats your pronoun 🤣
@@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.
Thank you for sharing! These educational videos are incredibly helpful and good for spreading awareness!
I am loving the influx of "How it's made" type videos from Zack!
great video as always.
here in norway every shop that sells lightbulbs, and batteries for that matter, are obliged to collect used ones.
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.
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.
a lot of "CO2" lasers also have a mix of gasses to make them LASE.
@@alexdrockhound9497 i feel like you still have to include the R when using "laser" as a verb.
@@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""
@@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”?
I like the direction the channel is going. Love to hear about the positives that we can do for the environment.
I love how committed you are to help the environment and educate/entertain us at the same time. This makes for continually great content!
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.
“Today on how it is unmade”
This is really cool process!
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!
And then they thought it was good idea to put that toxic metal into ppls tooth fillings.
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...
That explains alot Dan.
@@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.
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!
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.
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
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.
The effort that goes into recycling these things is kinda satisfying
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.
I bet most people rather their money be spent on something else like gun rights
@@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.
@@thomasandrews9355 i would
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.
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
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
I love that you make all different types of videos and I especially love that this wasn't even sponsored.
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...
Thanks for covering the recycling of CFLs. They are something that more people need to be aware of regarding their dangers and wasted resources
WOW, I'm impressed with your professionalism and your natural host abilities. You're video's on recycling, etc... should be featured on television for all to see. Keep up with the great research and content. Thanks
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 🤩
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!
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.
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.
Thank you for always writing converted units in the videos
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.
Really awesome that they open the machines for you to see what's going on inside. Please make more videos like this
I always have had the concern with cCFL bulbs. And after watching this, now I can recycle them. ♻️
Growing up with PBS made me a sucker for 'how it's made' type clips. Well done on channeling that energy.
WOW!! the amount of energy it takes to recycle these bulbs is staggering!
Great video! Loved seeing what happens, and the resources to recycle.
These videos like this are amazing where your channel is headed. However, we need an update on the whisper project.
More recycling with Jerry please
Nice to get to learn about light bulb recycling and raise awareness in society about this topic. Thanks Zack!
This is a great, educational video. I bought a house a couple years ago and I have a ton of tube fluorescent bulbs I need to get rid of, now I have a better idea of where I can go and why I shouldn't just shatter them and throw them in the trash lol
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.
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!
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.
You can explore making videos about factory tours.. they are always interesting. Hoping more like these come along!
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.
I hope you do more videos like these. Coz we enjoy listening to you.
I never thought about this. I used to just casually toss out the bulbs in garbage pile. Thanks for education Zack.
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!
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?!?
@@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.
@@desther This isn't pet food tho - it's grocery store Starkist tuna.
I found this video very educational and how great a facility like this can keep us all safe while recycling glass, aluminum and recapturing mercury all to be reused again. It gives me hope for mankind and the future. Thanks for sharing this knowledge Zack.
really enjoying the reach out into this different kind of content
Got 4 55 gallon drums and 2 5 gallon buckets in my garage from the mercury I've collected over the years neat stuff to experiment with as long as it's handled right.
Awesome job zack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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.
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!
Always a good day when Zack posts
Thanks Jerry I watched your previous video regarding the Ford 150 and I was very disappointed to see all the staff members with pretty much no personal safety protection!!! I watched this current video I can see everyone waring protection, maybe in another states, other company other policy but good to see this on this recycling process:)
Nice job done, thank you!
I just realized that I did not see anymore energy saving bulbs to buy anymore, but instead the LED lamps which I personally prefer and not just because of all the fancy settings you can do.
Even almost 30 years ago in school (Austria) we had the technician class and experimented with LED as light source, but when the question came up, why we do not use it already, because its cheaper, better and last much longer.. no one could answer it, or did not wanted ;)
Anyway, good stuff, great video! Thanks alot
Practical blue LEDs (required for white LEDs) were basically invented in 1993. It wasn't until the 2000s that LEDs started to become remotely affordable for general illumination.
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.
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!
A very informative video
I once broke a thermometer 🤒 when i was a kid.
That’s pretty dope. Props to CleanEarth for the tour.
I love these kinda videos it reminds me of my time in Engineering where went for Industrial Visit, thanks Zack !
Thanks for the great content Zach!! Merry Christmas from Layton Utah!!!!
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!
His channel is now fancy facilities tours... and im here for it!
Merry Christmas to you and your family sir. Keep up the good content love from Scotland
Good video, Well explained. This guy has a Great voice for Podcasting, Voice overs and all that. Should look into that. Maybe already has. 👍👍🍺
This was very informative. I’d never given a second thought to just throwing these bulbs in the garbage because I thought the amount of mercury was insignificant. But seeing you holding that jar of mercury makes me realize that those small amounts can really add up. Now I’ll start recycling the fluorescent bulbs instead of just tossing them in the garbage where they end up in the ocean. I LOVE seafood.
Interesting, I never really gave this any thought. I guessed it was only the glass that got recycled.
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.
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.
@@Johnny2Feathers sure... in this not giving this thought means poisoning our food supply. Seems dumb.
@@TheSpotify95 But in the first minute of the video he said halogen bulbs have mercury in them, are you saying Zack is wrong?
Very well explained and very interesting to know this might make people think twice before they putting there bulbs in the bin it's better to recycle ♻️
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.
"amazingly clean for working on such dangerous material." and that is exactly why it is so clean.
How It's Recycled becoming one my favorite series..
I was a fan for How It's Made series on Discovery
Thank you for bringing awareness to this.
Love these calm, cool and collective videos 🤙🏽
The large round clear bulb is not specifically refered to as an HID. It's either metal halide or high pressure sodium. They still require a ballast but it's not a conventional modern HID
Recycling processes are so interesting, I wish we could streamline our waste collection to recover as many useful materials as possible.
Sorting your waste really doesn’t seem difficult, I wish everyone did it.
Informative video Zack thanks 👍 Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Nice to find you again as I lost you shortly after you got the prototype done. I enjoyed bouncing the ideas back and forth. That elevator install looked expensive when you could have simply built one like I did for my shop.
Great video Zack - what people don't know is that at 0.7 mg per kg, there is enough mercury in just one adult bigeye tuna to make over 100 CF lightbulbs. 😞 You could almost mine them for it!
As for the effects of mercury, the youtube video "Mercury Poisoning - The Minamata Story" will give you nightmares..
Most of the mercury in our environment comes from burning coal, which is another really good reason for getting rid of it.
I only watch these videos for his voice and the snap leading into the intro
When I was a kid in grade school the teachers allowed raw liquid mercury to be passed around from student to student as a "science demonstration" of some sort. We'd roll it around on our hands and look at it up close while admiring its strange beauty. At the end of the demonstration the last student to handle the mercury would deposit any tiny amount remaining back into the bottle from which it was originally dispensed. By that time the quantity had decreased dramatically from the amount initially poured into the first child's hands. I asked my parents if I could have some mercury of my own but they told me "No, because it's probably expensive and you don't need it".
Very interesting ! I will focus even more on recycling light bulbs....
Thanks for sharing your light(s) this Christmas!
Quite enlightening video, thx & merry X-mas!
That final frame 👌
ohhhh man brings back memories of how its mad thanks for this love it!
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.
That's a great video, so many millions of old bulbs went into the regular landfilling the USA and UK over the years among lots of other nasties like the old radioactive smoke detectors etc..
Thank you for the educational video.. Always wanted to know what happens to the recycled bulbs..
This 8 minute video is worth it
Thanks for showing this process, simple but interesting, evaporating the mercury is easy and efficient 👍
Thanks for the great video! I would love to see one on how lithium batteries are recycled.
Surprised you didn't provide an analogy to the danger of mercury vapor with the "Mad as a Hatter" saying.
I appreciate the video and especially the information on how to recycle. I have a box of burnt out fluorescent bulbs to dispose of.
I was holding my breath for a 'glass is glass' phrase, but alas... :P
I've never seen those bins at either Lowes or Home Depot in Canada.
But I've seen them at IKEA with the battery bins.
It's too bad that most of these bulbs end up in landfills in Canada. No one really cares.
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
I had no idea light bulbs had hazardous materials in them, as such I have always thrown them in the trash. Thank you for the education.
Thanks for saving the word.
I loved playing with Mercury as a kid. We got old thermometers, broke the glass and then we would hit the Mercury with a hammer. It would fly everywhere but it always stayed as small droplets. This is what we did for fun in the 60s
That explains a lot of UA-cam comment sections
Hammer? You're a madman. :-) I accidentally spilled a drop in my room and it broke into a thousand tiny balls. Cleaned up what I could with tape, but there were some sleepless nights thinking I might've condemned our house/neighborhood until I could get to the library. Ah, the days before Google 🙂
@@joez.2794 In the sixties nobody cared. Things are different now. This is what people have problems with, times have changed. Alot of things that were allowed then are frowned upon today. Take smoking, nearly everyone smoked but today its frowned on.
Great video. Much love from Kenya Africa
Aluminium can be magnetically separated using eddy current separators, the prongs looked like brass but could have been plated.
I'd love to see a follow up showing led bulb recycling. As those are the most used light source these days
The ease you touch all this stuff with Leads me to suspect your hands are more robust leather than skin ;D