Connexus Energy makes bulb recycling as easy as a trip to your local hardware store. And, we'll even help pay the recycling fee.

Here's how it works:

• Take your used fluorescent bulbs* and one coupon per bulb to a participating store. (See list of participating stores.)

• Each coupon (maximum of 10) gives you 50 cents off the recycling fee for each qualifying bulb you recycle. (request coupon book).

* Circular fluorescent tubes, U-bend tubes, compact fluorescent bulbs, high-intensity discharge lamps, fluorescent tubes up to eight feet in length.

Bulb recycling is good for the environment, and it's the Law.

Used fluorescent and high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps require special care because they contain a small amount of mercury. Because it's important to limit the amount of mercury entering our environment, Minnesota law states that fluorescent bulbs cannot be disposed of with your household garbage.

Although fluorescent bulbs require special care after they burned out, they'll last up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, and they use 75 percent less energy. With today's improving lighting technology, fluorescent bulbs give you the same warm quality of light as regular bulbs.