They are making this too hard.

So I had a fluorescent light in my kitchen for the last 34 years and for the last couple months the thing was not always starting so I bought a new version that's LED and installed it. Took longer to wash the grease off of the ceiling than to install it. It works great! Starts right up. No flickering, Only a fraction of the power. Getting rid of the old one though was a different story. Took it up to the county dropoff and was turned down. They want you to separate thd metal from the wire and the plastic and the ballasts are to go into hazardous waste at a hefty charge (ever though it says it contains no bcbs.). Then each item must be dropped ofv in a different building. Riiiiight.... So i took it home. Disassembled it. Pounded the sheet metal out flat and took it up to the cabin for covering mouse holes. Coiled up the wire and put in on the garage wall for home repairs, saved the screws and nuts and put the rest in the circular file.