Thread: Goodbye 100w, 75w Incandescent Lamps
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Default Goodbye 100w, 75w Incandescent Lamps
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(Don Klipstein) wrote:

If any are disposed of through lamp recycling outfits, then
reduction of mercury pollution would be even greater.

"They" removed the mercury from dry cells (batteries). Now it's CFLs (compact
fluorescent lamps) turn to be the poster child of a Good Ideatm with a
BAAAAD environmental impact.

How much mercury is in the average CFL? How much REAL damage can they do if
introduced into the general waste stream and deposited in a MODERN landfill?

If they are ahem PROPERLY recycled, what happens to the mercury?

If the D.C.Droids can legislate 35mpg and ban the 100w and 75w incandescent
light bulb, why do they not address the building "threat" of discarded CFLs?
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JR
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