Ecolights Northwest

EcoLights was created in 1996 to offer proper management and recycling of mercury bearing light tubes and both PCB and non-PCB ballasts. EcoLights is the only licensed “final destination” lamp recycler in Washington and the largest in the Pacific Northwest. Now, with the EcoLights Mail-Pak, we can offer convenient fluorescent lamp recycling services across the United States (except Alaska and Hawaii). In addition to straight fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps, we also recycle high intensity discharge lamps (HID), Ultra Violet lamps (UV) and batteries. EcoLights collects and consolidates PCB and non-PCB ballasts from our customers for proper management. We work with a permitted PCB ballast recycler to properly manage all PCB bearing materials. We have a policy of recycling all PCB containing devices and incinerating all PCBs. With the expansion of the Universal Waste Rule in 2000, EcoLights became legally able to accept other mercury bearing devices from customers. These materials include thermostats, thermometers, manometers, blood pressure monitor cuffs, mercury switches and a host of other mercury bearing devices. Our services are designed to help our customers comply with laws regarding the handling of hazardous materials, help them reduce their long-term legal liabilities, minimize the disposal of hazardous waste and help protect the environment that we all share.

Our parent company, Total Reclaim was formed in 1990 to help industry and government agencies comply with the requirements of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. Today, Total Reclaim is the leading recycler of computers and electronics in the Pacific Northwest. They offer a wide variety of innovative environmental services for management of electronics and other hard-to-handle materials, including refrigerant gases and appliances. More information is available at http://www.totalreclaim.com/.

Beginning January 1, 2013, all Washington businesses and government agencies will be required to recycle their used mercury-containing lights. To help businesses and governments meet this new requirement, EcoLights is offering an easy way to recycle spent lamps through our pre-paid box kit recycling program.EcoLights has created a simple and convenient way to manage your used fluorescent tubes, High Intensity Discharge (HID), and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in an environmentally sound, yet cost effective fashion. For a single price our program includes:

• On-line ordering of pre-paid recycling kits;
• Delivery of recycling kits to your site via Fed-Ex;
• Specially designed boxes and pails for collection of waste materials, protective liner bags, and all packaging instructions for filling at your site;
• Return shipping to EcoLights’ processing facility via Fed-Ex;
• Environmentally sound recycling of the contents of the kit, helping keep you compliant with the law;
• Final Certificate of Recycling emailed to you with processing dates and amount of material recycled;
• On-line accessible records of materials recycled by facility.

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your use of the “Container” that you purchased in connection with a Program. If you have any questions regarding these Terms, consult the EcoLights.com Web Site or call EcoLights at (888) 214-2327.The following definitions shall apply to these Terms: “EcoLights” means EcoLights Northwest LLC; “Program” means, as applicable, one of the prepaid container recycling programs available at www.EcoLights.com or otherwise through EcoLights; “You” or “Customer” means the user of the Container; “Web Site” means www.EcoLights.com; “Recycler” means the entity that will process the Recycled Materials; “Recycled Materials” means mercury containing lamps, dry cell batteries, non-pcb lighting ballasts, mercury-containing electrical equipment and devices (provided that (i) there is less than 1lb of physical elemental mercury in the Container and either (ii) the container is being shipped from a State that classifies the devices as Universal Waste or (iii) the Customer is a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator; and electronic products, parts and materials (excluding smoke detectors, items that contain liquids or sludge, thermostats or other items containing liquid mercury, or devices contaminated with or containing biohazard material).