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f - a IGHTING • Fluorescent Light Tubes • PCB-Containing BaUasts Now SACK Rd manuWat tl afteer January 1, 1978 do not contain Spent. fluorescent light tubes and HIgh .Intensity PCBs.and should be labeled as such on the ballast. Discharge. )lamps contain mercury which,when If you are unsurt if a ballast contains PCBs,you can diised in a municipal landfill, can leach into the contact the manufacutra: so and groundwater. . Light ballasts containing PCBs can also pose potential problems when improperly disposed. S t flu t light tubes can be recycled, ' g for the recovery of the mercury, glass, and Increased awareness of energy savings using newer, aluminum end caps. Within California, there are more efficient fluorescent lighting has prompted three facilities with Department authorization to many businesses to replace older lighting fixtures accept non-RCRA fluorescent tubes for recycling_ with new equipment. These efforts have increased These facilim are listed on the other side of this the need to . :,ly manage lighting wastes. Fact Sheet. The Department encourages the 6ao*jbdM order to PASTE CL.ASSIFICAIM eliminate their disposal to landfills and the Spent fluorescent light tubes and HID lamps are environmental problems that may result. regulated by the Department of Toxic Substances Th Control (Department) because they contain mercury, crc currently are no facilities authorized to accept which is listed as a presumptive hazardous waste in HID lamps or ballasts for recycling within ,�*_ ndix X,Chapter 11,Title 22,California Code of California This situation is subject to change ations (22 CCR). Spent fluorescent light tubes pending further technology development or the and HID lamps typically contain concentrations of establishment of permitted facilities. mercury'(an inorganic pernstent and bioaccumulative toxic substance) exceeding the Total Threshold Limit IZISEDSAL Concentration CMC) and/or the Soluble Threshold The Depw ti, ent's interim policy currently allows a Limit Concentration (BTEC) values. The regulatory generator to dispose as nonhazardous waste no more thresholds arc 20 mg/kg and 02 mg/l,respectively,as than a combined total of ZS spent fluorescent light noted in Section 66261.24 (a) (2) (A),22 CCR vibes and HID lamps, regardless of size, in a day. Quantities greater than this, which arc destined for In addition, these wastes may be regulated as a land disposal, must be managed as a hazardous federal hazardous waste in accordance with the waste and are: subject to land disposal restrictions. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCR.A),if For more information on land disposal restrictions, they contain concentrations of mercury which exceed contact the Departrnenfs Treatment Standards Unit the characteristic of toxicity as measured by the at(916)323-6042. Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) pursuant to Section 261.24,Title 40, Code of Federal For PCB-containing ballasts, thctz arc two disposal Regulations (40 CFR). It is the generator's options: (1)incineration in an incinerator permitted responsibitity to classify their waste. The U.S.EPA to burn PCB wastes, or (2) placement in lab packs is currently reviewing these wastes and may nzvise its and then disposal in a hazardous waste landfill. regulations in the future. Cirtrentl)►, there an no incinerators operating in California permitted to accept PCB wastes. There Fluorescent light ballasts which contain arc incinerators authorized to accept PCBs located polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) an considered outside of California. The only landfill in hazardous (Appendix X. Chapter 11, 22 CCR) and California that can accept hazardous PCB wastes is regulated by the Department. Ballasts the Chemical Waste Management facility at CaWma Environmental Protection Agency • eof Toxic ubstancesvol • Pollution Prevention.Public and Regulatory Assistance Program • November 1992