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Addendum to my previous post
CFLs contain mercury. They cannot work without mercury. At this moment, this is little hope of there ever being a mercury-less compact florescent bulb because the light produced by them comes partly from exciting mercury atoms.
Please do NOT, NOT, NOT, under any circumstances, throw compact florescent bulbs into your trash. Look up how Household Hazardous Waste is disposed of in your county, and follow those instructions. OR, bother your local hardware store or Wal-Mart (*cringe*) and ask them where their CFL disposal/recycling collection box is.
One compact florescent bulb contains about 4 mg of mercury. (As CFLs keep being pushed, sorry if I'm worried that this stuff'll add up. Plus the fact that there'll be more and more of it indoors.)
Half a gram of mercury (the amount in a traditional thermometer) in a 10-acre lake would warrant a fish advisory. One gram in a 20-acre lake will render all its fish unsafe for consumption for a year.
Mercury vaporizes. Commonly. It has a shitload of disastrous effects on people's health.
Sorry for my peevishness, but all the pushing of CFLs lately do not mention safe disposal of these bulbs for my taste. I almost got into a comments skirmish on DailyKos because of this subject when it came up some months ago that California wanted to ban incandescents... and while I think that's all fine on paper, IMHO it would be STUPID to undertake such legislation, in CA, NJ, Australia or anywhere without some MAJOR education campaigns on how CFLs need to be disposed.![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
naturalliving only made it painfully clear how much this education and knowledge is lacking.
Do your fucking job, mainstream media. I don't want more of this crap in my air in addition to being poisoned by it in my food.
And while we're on the subject of mercury, screw GE. There is no such thing as "clean" coal energy. Are you kidding me?
Please do NOT, NOT, NOT, under any circumstances, throw compact florescent bulbs into your trash. Look up how Household Hazardous Waste is disposed of in your county, and follow those instructions. OR, bother your local hardware store or Wal-Mart (*cringe*) and ask them where their CFL disposal/recycling collection box is.
One compact florescent bulb contains about 4 mg of mercury. (As CFLs keep being pushed, sorry if I'm worried that this stuff'll add up. Plus the fact that there'll be more and more of it indoors.)
Half a gram of mercury (the amount in a traditional thermometer) in a 10-acre lake would warrant a fish advisory. One gram in a 20-acre lake will render all its fish unsafe for consumption for a year.
Mercury vaporizes. Commonly. It has a shitload of disastrous effects on people's health.
Sorry for my peevishness, but all the pushing of CFLs lately do not mention safe disposal of these bulbs for my taste. I almost got into a comments skirmish on DailyKos because of this subject when it came up some months ago that California wanted to ban incandescents... and while I think that's all fine on paper, IMHO it would be STUPID to undertake such legislation, in CA, NJ, Australia or anywhere without some MAJOR education campaigns on how CFLs need to be disposed.
naturalliving only made it painfully clear how much this education and knowledge is lacking. Do your fucking job, mainstream media. I don't want more of this crap in my air in addition to being poisoned by it in my food.
And while we're on the subject of mercury, screw GE. There is no such thing as "clean" coal energy. Are you kidding me?
