Switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s) is something you have probably read about on every environmental and ecological blog and heard on nearly every television program that talks about ways to save energy and help the environment.

And while all the talk is helping raise awareness and creating a huge surge in the purchase of compact fluorescent bulbs which use a lot less energy than traditional light bulbs, there wasn’t much being done to recycle them with only about 2 percent of the bulbs sold in the United States being recycled. That means the other 98 percent are presumably ending up in landfills where the mercury contained in the CFL’s is raising an environmental concern of its own.

Home Depot is helping ease that problem. They have announced they will accept old compact fluorescent bulbs at all of their stores in the United States - nearly 2,000 locations.

With 75 percent of the United State’s population living within 10 miles of a Home Depot store, it will make it fairly easy for people to drop their old bulbs off at Home Depot and it helps draw more people into Home Depot stores making it a good solution for proper disposal of the CFL bulbs and a way to get more people shopping at Home Depot stores.