The state’s Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB) is formulating a program that will encourage businesses, apartment complexes and mobile home parks to institute recycling. The mandatory recycling directive will most likely set goals for cities and counties, allowing them to implement individual programs as long as they comply. Start date was Jan. 1, 2010
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that if half of the 5.5 million tons of recyclable material dumped by large businesses, apartment complexes and mobile home parks were reused, the state could save space in landfills and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by the equivalent of taking almost 1 million cars off the road.
To learn more: http://earth911.com/news/2009/08/24/california-to-mandate-recycling-for-businesses-apartments/
It seems to me that there should be just as much concern about recycling incandescent light bulbs as there is about fluorescent light bulbs. Incandescent light bulbs contain lead at levels that exceed hazardous waste limits and release more mercury into the the environment than fluorescent bulbs.