Mitre 10 has been encouraging sustainability through recycling and its customers are getting fully on board with it.
The lightbulb recycling programme has been going nationwide since April and Dannevirke Mitre 10 manager Bryce Galloway said there had been a "pretty good" response from the community.
He said the key driver behind the programme was reducing the amount going to landfill and recycling as many old lightbulbs as possible.
While it was not for those bulbs in commercial use, residents could bring in any traditional household fluorescent or LED bulbs to be recycled.
With climate change and sustainability being key issues, Mitre 10 had been looking into ways to reduce the impact on the environment and had partnered up with another company that specialised in recycling items that couldn't be recycled by councils.