How to Clean Up a Broken LED Bulb

  LED bulbs contain no mercury or other hazardous chemicals and do not have to be treated as hazardous waste. LED bulbs often are housed in plastic.

Put on prodected eye weare, heavy gloves or leather gloves to protect your hands from glass or plastic shards. Approrate prepare trash can or Prepare trash bags by placing one inside another double bagging can prevent shards from poking through.

Sweep up larger shards of the bulb using a hand broom and a dustpan. Dump the bulb shards and metal components into the apporate trash bags.

Tear off a strip of duct tape about six inches long. Press the adhesive side lightly to the surface where the bulb broke. This will pick up small pieces of glass that the broom left behind.

Use a hose attachment on a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rest of the bulb particles, if necessary. If the bulb was very small, as many LED bulbs are, this might not be necessary (unless fragments are in carpeting).

Always try to recycle as much a possible.
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