Disposal of gas discharge lamp, breakage of lamps

What to do if a gas discharge lamp or a energy saving lamp breaks?

Currently there are no damages to health proven, neither by the light colour and flickering nor by electromagnetic fields.

The only possibility to get in touch with health-damaging mercury would be, if a gas discharge lamp or energy saving lamp broke.
To avoid to get in touch with much mercury, please carry out the following isntructions:

- Broken pieces should be put into a plastic bag or bottling jar by a damped paper towel and sealed air tight. Take care to not cut yourself at any piece of broken glass! Take the container to a contaminant locality.
- Avoid any skin contact and air your room for at least 20-30 minutes.
- Do not use a vacuum cleaner!
- Dispose broken lamps as well as inoperable lamps appropriately and in a good and workmanlike manner.

Taking back of gas discharge lamps
Please dispose gas discharge lamps at a municipal collecting point (local communities), at specific containers or bringt it to local traders at no charge, as it is required by law. You are required by law to do so.
The disposal in general trash is expressly forbidden according to electric law.
At ANTSTORE there is a box for taking-back your gas discharge lamps, energy saving lamps, fluorescent lamps etc. from private households. It can brought there at no charge.
By this means Antstore ensures a sustainable disposal of gas discharge lamps in accord with the electro- and electronic devices law (ElektroG).

Gas discharge lamps are e.g.: energy saving lamps, compact fluorescent lamps, with or without implemented electronic ballast (CFL, CFL-i), LED lamps or rodlike fluorescent lamps, which can be used in standardised sockets
(e.g. retrofits, LED tube, high pressure discharge lamp, low pressure sodium discharge lamp.