Bulb Eater--chomp chomp chomp

When I first heard bulb eater, I pictured something a little like this:

Facilities is purchasing a "Premium Bulb Eater" (yes that is what it's called) for, as they say, "The safe, efficient way to recycle fluorescent lamps." The Bulb Eater (which we'll have to come up with a name for) crushes fluorescent lamps into 100% recyclable material and captures over 99.99% of the vapors released!

This guy (or girl) can hold up to 1350 4 foot bulbs. You can also feed it about 20 lamps per minute, but that depends on who's doing the feeding (oh and how hungry he is). Once the drum is full, a recycling truck comes and picks up the drum to properly recycle the used product.

One bulb eater will be purchased and be stored centrally at the Administration building.

Now, here is what The Bulb Eater really looks like:

Green Facilities at ALD-Where are we now?

The following information was provided by Jose as an update for how our facilities are practicing green initiatives.

Four motion-sensor lights have been installed at Admin. Chet will be working on this in other facilities as well!

New waterless urinals! Click here.


The following lighting controls will help save on energy at May Library. These are spread throughout the facility and engineer to control lighting where required:
a) Three Dimmers
b) Wall occupancy sensors
c) Daylight Photo sensor
d) T5 transformers are installed and low voltage lighting where necessary






The following lighting controls will help save on energy at Streets at Southglenn. These are spread throughout the facility and engineer to control lighting where required:
a) Wall mounted occupancy sensors
b) Ceiling Mounted occupancy sensors
c) Switch with integrated occupancy sensors
d) Dimmer switch
e) Please note that T5 was also use in this facility

A solar-powered water faucet will be installed for the childrens and staff restroom at Streets at Southglenn! Way cool.