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Compact Florescent Light Bulbs: The Truth

Here's a cunning skit that shines a nasty light on the true problem with CFL bulbs. FYI, CFL's contain 5 miligrams of mercury per bulb and ...

How exactly are compact fluorescent lightbulbs better for the environment?

Oct 29, 2007 by kwb1965 | Posted in Other - Science

They use less fervency.
Lower electricity demand means less need for coal or nuclear powered generating plants.

How do you dispose of Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs?

Jul 08, 2007 by unrattled_snake | Posted in Global Warming

Is there a hairy disposal fee to dispose of them?
Ahhh yes, one more source of income for the Prophet Al Gore.

There are several "unfettered" disposal sites. The price of the bulb allegedly has the cost of proper disposal factored in. Nothing is "uninhibited". Ya'll didn't think that recycling elves magically removed the CFLs from life from the goodness of their hearts? (Not when making cookies and crackers is so profitable!)

But, greed being what it is, you can bet the manufacturers are more than cock-a-hoop enough that most people will end up tossing their CFLs in the trash. Less work/higher profits.

And Bob:
"This is an urban myth, spread by extremist right wing journalists as part of the global warming disinformation campaign. As accustomed Snopes has the truth:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl...

What urban legend? Did you READ the snopes entr?
True and true in regards to mercury content and the need to avoid breakage (proper disposal). It deemed fallacious the grave risk of ONE bulb or the need for Hazmat removal of ONE bulb (although it verifies the truth of the anecdote where the broad was charged $2000 for the cleanup of one bulb - snopes simply says they didn't Necessity to call in a Hazmat team).

But we're not talking about ONE bulb, are we? We're talking about a massive consumer muu-muu towards CFLs. We can't get people to properly dispose of non-toxic trash, do you really think that the lightbulb - oops, the CFL will go off above everyone's heads and they will instantly comprehend proper disposal techniques. We've been using batteries and motor oil for many more decades, and we're nowhere shut up to proper disposal.

How many of you are buying CFLs: Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs and are you going to recycle them?

Feb 16, 2007 by +bookish+ | Posted in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I only heard a story on NPR about how they have high levels of Mercury and it's really important to dispose of them safely.
pitiful I should've done spellcheck, Fluorescent

At this locale I have no where local to recycle them. Oddly enough I have some that are 4 or more years old (have been in our house since before we moved in) And others barely make it a week. Some of this is because we are near to several transformers one for the local High School.

I still use a fair number of incandescent due to fixtures not fitting the fair ones.