EcoLights

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.

Facility & Property Management

For building owners, facility or property managers and maintenance professionals, recycling lamps in small or medium quantities can present a challenge. Government regulations require that hazardous waste, such as used fluorescent lamps, be stored, transported and disposed of in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. The lack of adequate storage containers or local lamp recycling centers often results in improper lamp disposal and breakage.For large facilities or re-lamping jobs, EcoLights offers full service recycling, including delivery of storage containers, pick-up and transportation of containers that are filled with used lamps, responsible recycling and complete documentation.

If you manage a single building or network of buildings, our pre-paid recycling kits offer a convenient way to recycle lamps safely and responsibly. We make it easy to stay in compliance. Just select the appropriate container and order online. Once received, simply fill it with your used lamps and ship it to us via Fedex. Certificates of Recycling will be mailed to you and can also be printed from your computer once your materials have been received and recycled.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.

Contractor Services

EcoLights has provided lamp recycling services to a wide variety of contractors since 1996. Our company-owned truck fleet and environmental compliance expertise allow us to respond quickly with comprehensive storage and transportation solutions for any size job.

As the largest fluorescent lamp recycler in the Pacific Northwest, we have become the choice of a wide variety of contractors including:

• Demolition

• Abatement

• Lighting

• Electrical

• General

• Maintenance

Our services are designed to meet the most stringent environmental regulations and provide safety for our employees and those of our customers. We maintain our own Environmental Health and Safety department to ensure that your recycling will be properly manifested and documented. Certificates of Recycling are provided with your invoice. For orders placed at the EcoLights online store, certificates of recycling can also be printed on demand from your Web browser once your materials have been received and processed by EcoLights.

We know that selecting a responsible lamp recycler is critical to protecting your business as well as the environment. More detailed environmental compliance information and tours of our Seattle recycling facility are available to our customers on request.

Whole Fixture Recycling

For many types of jobs, contractors can save time and money by recycling the entire lighting fixture instead of just the lamp. EcoLights accepts whole lighting fixtures for recycling, then removes the lamps and recycles the fixtures. In doing so, we greatly minimize or eliminate the waste that would otherwise go to landfill.

More Recycling Services

Ecolights is owned by Total Reclaim, the largest and most experienced electronics recycler in the Pacific Northwest. Together, Total Reclaim and EcoLights have processed over 200 million pounds of material.Total Reclaim offers a portfolio of responsible recycling services. We have the expertise and capacity to offer comprehensive recycling solutions for businesses, individuals and all levels of government.In addition to fluorescent lamps, CFLs, batteries and mercury-bearing devices, we also recycle:

Environmental Compliance Experts

Our commitment to environmental compliance is at the core of everything we do. We take our responsibilities to you, our people, and the environment very seriously. That’s why we have our own Environmental Health and Safety Department to ensure that our operations surpass all federal, state, and local rules and regulations.

• All our facilities are fully permitted by appropriate government authorities
• We carry pollution liability and identity theft insurance
• We perform environmental audits of our downstream vendors
• We’ve re-lamped our own facilities for efficient energy use
• Our parent company, Total Reclaim, was one of the original signers of the
• Basil Action Network’s Electronics Recycler’s Pledge of True Stewardship

Regulations such as the Universal Waste Rule (UWR) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) govern the disposal and management of hazardous materials. Links to information on these and other regulations are available at our resource center.

EcoLights operates the only permitted “final destination” fluorescent lamp recycling facility in Washington State. We've been keeping our customers in compliance since 1996 by offering innovative and responsible recycling solutions. In addition to protecting the environment, we work hard to protect your brand and reputation. More information and tours of our recycling facility are available to our customer on request.

Environmental Health and Safety Policy Statement
It is the Total Reclaim/EcoLights Policy to conduct all business activities in a manner that protects the natural environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers and the polulation in general...