An incident talking about CF breakage can be found he

http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index...46&Ite mid=31

Not hysteria. It's actually happened.

-intrepid



On Apr 25, 1:28 pm, (Dave Martindale) wrote:
writes:
And keep in mind the hard lesson some have learned - when these bulbs
break, you have serious hazardous waste situation with the mercury
powder in the bulbs. For all the hysteria about how "eco-friendly"
these CF bulbs are, they are a homeowner's nightmare.

The powder in the bulbs is the phosphor. There is mercury, but it
should be in tiny little drops of liquid mercury. There's so little you
might not be able to see it at all (~4 mg).

Where do you get this information from?

Dave