So .. here in the UK , our local Waste Tips usually have a shop , where they give things a last chance before being disposed of. I go most weekends to see what I can "save" lol .
This weekend , there was a stack of boxes , all containing huge light bulbs .. price tag £10 for the lot . Bug smile came on my face .. "I'll have these please" !
They are mostly GES / E40 300w clear glass bulbs. and about 20 or so 200w E27 . 128 bulbs in total ! Filled the back of our small car (with the back seats down) .
I was so pleased .. but Wifey didn't seem so impressed with my haul ?? :-(
So I remembered I had an account here .. so I have some people to tell about it :-)
Most of them are GEC , a few look a bit older and are Osram , and the 200w E27 are Thorn.
Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with them all !
I thought I could make a table lamp .. maybe steam punk style , and limit the current so they just glow a cosey orange colour ?
If they look good , I could sell them on ebay or something.
I've already noticed the bases/sockets are not very available for that kind of wattage.

Anyway .. here are some pics , and if you have any ideas what I can do with / make for them .. let me know :-)

osram

GEC

Thorn

Boot Full

Interesting, this doesn’t sound like any tip I’ve seen!, ours is so obsessed with security, the lamp bin is right next to the office!, and it’s world war 3 if they catch you routing in it!!  
Good score saving those though.

Oh yeah!, they have one policy at our tip, “ incoming stuff only, nothing leaves”!, they’ll drone on about the WEEE directive and health and safety, and how dangerous things like old tubes are, “mercury in them you know”!!
As I understand there’s quite a few like that in the UK, run by ‘jobs worth’ council men!

we have a few in neighboring towns .
set up like a charity shop . pat test the electricals etc.
I've bought cameras HI Fi's , books , records etc etc ..
love it !

That’s a pretty cool idea though, you’d think the guys a the tips would want to make a bit of money?

That's overkill. The PC crowd at work.

They wanna be good to the environment yet they just let good things go to waste. Hypocrisy at its finest.

They wanna be good to the environment yet they just let good things go to waste. Hypocrisy at its finest.

It's about control, not environmental care.