Most people don't realize the compact fluorescent light bulbs have mercury in them
Posted By Jan Jenson on April 26, 2011
Esther LeSieur
US Government is phasing out incandescent light bulbs…
To: eSens@yahoogroups. com
Most people don’t realize the compact fluorescent light
bulbs have mercury in them. If they break in your home, you need to
have a HazMat team come in to clean it up. Not good in homes where
children may knock lamps over, but anyone could drop a bulb while
changing one and suddenly your home becomes a hazardous site.
Also, they are terrible for the environment. They must be disposed of
as hazardous waste. Most people will just throw them in the trash
because they either don’t have a hazardous waste disposal collection
by their waste management company, or they just don’t know. People
are told if they can’t dispose of them at a hazardous waste facility,
they should wrap them in newspaper and put them in the trash! A lot
of good that’s going to do in our landfills when they get broken, and
the mercury eventually leaches into our water supply. Plus what about
breakage in the garbage trucks and the waste collectors who are
exposed to the mercury? So in the name of energy savings, our health
is being put at risk and our environment will be further polluted.
Don’t we have enough mercury filled fish already?
I absolutely cannot tolerate fluorescent lights of any kind, including
the CFL’s. Even my eye doctor has written an article in her
newsletter relating the eye strain they cause. I’m trying to stock up
on incandescents for the next 15 years, being optimistic that I’m
going to live that long.
The phaseout is going to happen from 2012 to 2014, with the 100 watt
bulbs being eliminated first. Already, Target in my area (S.F. Bay
Area) isn’t selling them any more and they are very hard to find.
They seem to be replacing all the incandescent bulbs with the halogen
ones as they sell out their stock.
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