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Date Posted: 15:51:27 04/17/07 Tue
In reply to:
larry
's message, "cfl light bulbs not so green." on 15:52:03 04/16/07 Mon
total of 6 mg of mercury for a CFC compared to 10 mgs with a standard bulb...
you can look it up in wikipedia, under environmental issues.
>you can read the hole thing at the site. looks like
>cfl's are on the way out.
>
>
>Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government
>officials, environmentalists and retailers like
>Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing
>incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and
>money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
>
>With everyone from Al Gore to Wal-Mart to the
>Environmental Protection Agency promoting CFLs as the
>greatest thing since, well, the light bulb, consumers
>have been left in the dark about a problem they will
>all face eventually – how to get rid of the darn
>things when they burn out or, worse yet, break.
>
>CFLs are all the rage. They are the spirally shaped,
>long-lasting bulbs everyone is being urged, cajoled
>and guilt-tripped into purchasing to replace Thomas
>Edison's incandescents, which are being compared to
>sports utility vehicles for their impracticality and
>energy inefficiency. However, there is no problem
>disposing of incandescents when their life is over.
>You can throw them in the trash can and they won't
>hurt the garbage collector. They won't leech deadly
>compounds into the air or water. They won't kill
>people working in the landfills.
>
>The same cannot be said about the mercury-containing
>CFLs
>
>href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55
>213">http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=552
>13
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>When the bulb she was installing in a ceiling fixture
>of her 7-year-old daughter's bedroom crashed to the
>floor and broke into the shag carpet, she wasn't sure
>what to do. Knowing about the danger of mercury, she
>called Home Depot, the retail outlet that sold her the
>bulbs.
>
>According to the Ellison American, the store warned
>her not to vacuum the carpet and directed her to call
>the poison control hotline in Prospect, Maine. Poison
>control staffers suggested she call the Maine Center
>for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maine
>Department of Environmental Protection.
>
>The latter sent over a specialist to test the air in
>her house for mercury levels. While the rest of the
>house was clear, the area of the accident was
>contaminated above the level considered safe. The
>specialist warned Bridges not to clean up the bulb and
>mercury powder by herself – recommending a local
>environmental cleanup firm.
>
>That company estimated the cleanup cost,
>conservatively, at $2,000. And, no, her homeowners
>insurance won't cover the damage.
>
>Since she could not afford the cleanup, Bridges has
>been forced to seal off her daughter's bedroom with
>plastic to avoid any dust blowing around. Not even the
>family pets are permitted in to the bedroom. Her
>daughter is forced to sleep downstairs in an
>overcrowded household.
>
>She has continued to call public officials for help –
>her two U.S. senators included. So far, no one is
>beating down Bridges' door to help – not even Al Gore,
>whose Academy Award-winning movie, "An Inconvenient
>Truth," urges everyone to change to CFLs to save the
>planet from global warming.
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