Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 70A.230 - Mercury.
70A.230.150 - Requirement to recycle end-of-life mercury-containing lights.

RCW 70A.230.150
Requirement to recycle end-of-life mercury-containing lights. (Effective July 1, 2026, subject to the recodification contingency in 2014 c 119 § 10.)

Effective January 1, 2013:
(1) All persons, residents, government, commercial, industrial, and retail facilities and office buildings must recycle their end-of-life mercury-containing lights.
(2) No mercury-containing lights may knowingly be placed in waste containers for disposal at incinerators, waste to energy facilities, or landfills.
(3) No mercury-containing lights may knowingly be placed in a container for mixed recyclables unless there is a separate location or compartment for the mercury-containing lights that complies with local government collection standards or guidelines.
(4) No owner or operator of a solid waste facility may be found in violation of this section if the facility has posted in a conspicuous location a sign stating that mercury-containing lights must be recycled and are not accepted for disposal.
(5) No solid waste collector may be found in violation of this section for mercury-containing lights placed in a disposal container by the generator of the mercury-containing light.

[ 2010 c 130 § 8. Formerly RCW 70.95M.140, 70.275.080.]

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