Recommendations for managing the mercury hazard in fluorescent lamps and HID Lamps include:
• Do not crush or break the lamps.

• Store lamps in a manner that will prevent them from breaking. Package unbroken used lamps in boxes.

• Do not tape lamps together, as this poses a danger of breakage by implosion and creates additional handling and processing costs.

• Store broken lamps in a non-metal closed container marked "Broken Mercury Containing Lamps". Broken lamps may be sent to a permitted recycling facility or managed to a Licensed Hazardous waste facility as hazardous waste, according to federal/state hazardous waste requirements.

• Ship the lamps to a permitted recycling facility.