Air Cycle is proud to have sold thousands of Bulb Eater® systems to facilities across the world. We have worked with both small and large companies, schools, hospitals, military bases, and government buildings. We are always excited to hear from our customers just how well they like our products. Customer satisfaction is extremely important to us. Customers are always welcome to contact our customer service staff to offer both praise and constructive criticism.

Here is a sampling of what our customers have told us recently:

"We are very satisfied with the Bulb Eater® both operationally and environmentally. It feels good knowing that we are helping our planet and protecting our environment as well as the Chesapeake Bay." Read More

Richard Carr
Chief, Facilities & Operations
Harford County, Maryland

"We have used the Bulb Eater® extensively for our 1.5 million square foot facility. We have only had very positive results with it and the customer service from Air Cycle on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best) is a 10. Our salesperson has always responded in a timely and expedient manner and has taken care of anything we have needed. We are very satisfied with the recycling program as well."

US Postal Service Headquarters
Washington, D.C.

"The machine had some work out when we first got the machine here. Both the maintenance and some of the workers on the floor got a kick out of how easy it was to run and I think they went through the whole plant to find burned out bulbs. It works great and has been a big hit here at Drives."

Nick McQuistion
EAP Manager
Drives Inc.

"The bulbs are brought to a specific location. I send one person over there for a couple of hours a week to crush the tubes. It's very quick and efficient, and I don't have to waste so much time trying to load a truck. The cost of shipping a truckload of boxes is a whole lot more than shipping a drum of crushed tubes. That was another cost-effective factor the we were looking at when we bought this machine."

Sheela Backen
Integrated Solid Waste Program Manager
Colorade State University

"The Bulb Eater® has greatly reduced the administrative costs associated with preparing intact used fluorescent light bulbs for shipment. In addition, we not only save money in disposal costs but also have increased valuable storage space. As a result, The Bulb Eater® has made many of our employees' jobs much easier."

Lindsey Schueller
McDermott Technology Inc

"Based on our labor studies, we save over 23 hours of labor per 1400 lamps using the Bulb Eater® system."

Debbie Row
Dukane Corporation.

"The Bulb Eater® has been tremendous. It has cut my expenses by $15,000 a year and now I'm spending virtually nothing for recycling."

Paul Lewis
UnumProvident Insurance

"The Bulb Eater® has streamlined our compliance in disposing of fluorescent bulbs. It saves us from boxing them up and has eliminated the need to find storage space for spent bulbs. Our electricians are rather happy with its ease of use and it has been easy for our workers to comply with the regulations."

Dave Edwards
Seton Hall University

"We have reduced our storage and handling needs tremendously through the use of the Bulb Eater® system."

Mike Beers
Midwest U.S. Airbase

"The Bulb Eater® saved us a tremendous amount of storage space. We used to box our bulbs, place them on pallets, and shrink wrap them so it has saved us in labor as well."

Vince Veltre
Vassar Brothers Hospital

"The Bulb Eater® has greatly reduced the need for storage space. There aren't any broken lamps in the warehouse anymore, and everyone knows how to use the machine. I don't need to compare cost and time to convenience because it has reduced both considerably."

Bill Ackley
Trinity Medical Center

"I love it! The guys I work with love it! It has cut down on a significant amount of storage space, not to mention the money it saves. We like it so much, my guys are running around looking for spare tubes to crush. We've already reorganized the warehouse and it couldn't have been neater or cleaner since we've bought The Bulb Eater®"

Brian Weeks
Lakeland Regional Medical Center

"With our very limited storage space, The Bulb Eater® has helped us tremendously. We no longer have to store bulbs and it has saved us a great deal of time, effort and money."

Pat Rhodes
Virginia Western Community College

"We have been using The Bulb Eater® for about 6 months now and have found it to be a real plus in the safety aspect of our programs. We no longer have unbroken used tubes around waiting to be kicked over or broken by accident. Besides, the guys like using it. It really sucks the tubes down and eats them up."

Larry Freeman
Idaho State Hospital South

"We had just re-lamped a portion of our facility and had well over a thousand spent lamps to box and send out for recycling. Then we purchased the Bulb Eater®. The Bulb Eater® made the storage of our lamps easy and freed up valuable man hours for more pressing projects."

Skip King
Southern Oregon University

"The Bulb Eater® is a handy unit to have around. I have a crew that goes to the schools and crushes the lamps right there on-site. That way we're not transporting bulbs which reduces the hazard factor that's associated with mercury."

Robert McCarter
Lake County Public Schools

"We've had real success with The Bulb Eater®. It has sped up our process and cleaned up our storage area."

Darrell Johnson
University of Northern Colorado

"The Bulb Eater® has given us to be competitive with our bidding on lighting jobs. We had been doing it the old fashioned way of boxing the lamps and shipping them out intact. It took too much time and in turn was costly. Now, we flip a switch run the lamps through and wait for the trucks to pick up our containers and do the rest."

Anthony Santarelli
Environmental Options

"The Bulb Eater® has cut our lamp recycling cost by at least half! It paid for itself after 2 pick-ups!"

Todd Coyne
Aces Environmental

"Fantastic Idea! It saves money on recycling & storage. My crew actually volunteered to assemble it! I never have to remind them to dispose of bulbs!"

Bill Anderson
Sierra Winds Lifecare

"The Bulb Eater® has made it more convenient for us to crush the bulbs into a drum rather than polluting the environment by throwing them illegally in the dumpster."

Tom Brandeis
Wheaton Franciscan Sisters Hospital

"The Bulb Eater®is an incredible space-saving device."

Donald Dopkant
JLG Industries, Inc.

"It (the Bulb Eater®) is great!!!!!! All is working very well and we have cleaned up a pile of spent lamps. We have trained all of our maintenance techs. on the operation."

Tim Milligan
Nassau County Florida

"The Bulb Eater® has greatly reduced the need for storage space. There aren't any broken lamps in the warehouse anymore, and everyone knows how to use the machine. I don't need to compare cost and time to convenience because it has reduced both considerably."

Bill Ackley, Facility Services Team Leader
Trinity Medical Center

"Before I used to spend $1200/year on storage, labor and recycling. Now I spend less than $300 a year on recycling with the Bulb Eater® and after 12 months, the machine pays for itself. I recommend this machine to everyone, I'm all for recycling, I have grandchildren."

Ed Reineke, Building Engineer
AAA

"The Bulb Eater® has well paid for itself. It really does a good job."

Andy Smith, Maintenance Supervisor
University of North Carolina Hospitals

"The Bulb Eater® is a real space saver. It has kept us compliant with Pennsylvania's recycling laws. Overall, it has saved us money in the fact that we used to box and ship our bulbs and now we pay virtually nothing in comparison."

Todd Breindel
Environmental Manufacturing Engineer
SGL Carbon

"This Bulb Eater® works better than you described. All of our storage problems were solved after our initial crushing session."

Harding Academy of Memphis
Stan Hendrix

"Our building is a lot cleaner and more organized since we've gotten the Bulb Eater®! I wish we had gotten this years ago!"

NORIT Americas
Douglas Reagan

"Easy to use, to push around."

Knaack Manufacturing
Evan Skytte

"Works better than you said it would, reduced our storage requirements, what a mess we had! A lot less lamp handling, no more boxes! Those that work directly with it are now happy workers."

City of Toledo
Gary Stoll

"Works wonderfully! Made my life a little easier."

Virginia Western
Community College Pat Rhodes

"I've never seen the fluorescent lamp storage area cleaner. My engineers actually laugh in amazement as the Bulb Eater® sucks in the lamps."

Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center
Garnet Shipley

"Most Engineers are not very bashful about bringing problems to my attention. They haven't complained about fluorescent lamp storage since the Bulb Eater® has arrived to our campus."

University of Southeast Alaska
Ken Lea

"We love our Bulb Eater®"

Antioch Community High School
Jim Dennis

Our own State of Illinois EPA offices use our system to properly handle their lamps, as well as such companies as Kraft Foods, Amtrak, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and BF Goodrich. The Cleveland Zoo, Navy Pier (Chicago), Oklahoma State University, Virginia Tech University and many other schools, universities, hospitals, and government facilities also use our Bulb Eater® system and/or recycling services.

Air Cycle is proud to service some of the finest facilities across the country and abroad. A "glowing" list of recommendations from customers worldwide is available upon request.

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