Lamps

A lamp is the bulb or tube portion of a lighting device specifically designed to produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Common lamps include fluorescent, high intensity discharge, sodium vapor, mercury vapor, neon, and incandescent lamps, and cathode ray tubes (CRTs) from computers and televisions.  A company may choose to handle CRTs as consumer electronics or universal waste- electric lamp(s) in Michigan.

Used lamps become a waste on the date the handler permanently removes it from its fixture.  Unused lamps become waste on the date the handler decides to discard it.

Lamps must be managed in manner that prevents releases to the environments and must be stored in packages that are structurally sound, adequate to prevent breakage, compatible with the contents of the of the lamps, closed, and lack evidence of leakage, spillage, or damage that leakage or releases of mercury or other hazardous constituents to the environment.

Handlers must immediately clean up and place any lamp that is broken in packaging and place any lamp that shows evidence of breakage, leakage, or damage that could cause the release of mercury or other hazardous constituents to the environment in packaging that is structurally sound, adequate to prevent breakage, compatible with the contents of the of the lamps, closed, and lack evidence of leakage, spillage or damage that leakage or releases of mercury or other hazardous constituents to the environment.

Broken lamps generally cannot be handled as universal waste in Michigan.

Individual lamps or storage containers must be labeled with the words “Universal Waste- Lamp(s)” or “Waste Lamp(s)” or “Used Lamp(s).