Tubes with phosphorescent coating will have had a few grammes of mercury injected into the tube before it was pumped and bombarded, to produce the mercury vapour that glows UV to make the coating light up.
Mercury is very toxic.
Here is some info. https://www.wikihow.com/Dispose-of-Mercury
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