frame 10 for rotation about a pair of spaced parallel horizontal axes and with the upper run 13 of the belt being spaced beneath a narrow ledge or flange 15 which projects from one side of frame 10 in the embodiment illustrated a conventional gear mechanism 17 connects the shaft of the forward wheel 14 to the output of an electric motor 18 to be driven thereby in a direction to cause the upper run 13 of the belt to travel toward the right in fig2 and toward a fluorescent lamp crusher denoted generally by the numeral 20 crusher 20 comprises a cylindrical crusher housing 22 supported on a frame 21 with its upper inlet end inclined slightly to the vertical as noted in greater detail hereafter housing 22 contains a separator paddle and lamp crusher elements which are rotated by a u00bd hp drive motor 23 that is mounted on the closed upper end of the housing and which is shown in phantom by broken lines in fig2 fluorescent lamps l are adapted to be delivered one by one into the path of the crushing elements by a tubular feed pipe 24 which is sealing secured at one end in and projecting from an inlet opening in housing 22 and has an open outer end positioned to face incoming lamps delivered by belt b pivotally mounted in pipe.