Stormin Mormon wrote:
The gas is a much bigger loss.


The City of Houston will accept fluorescent light bulbs and
tubes from
residents at the North and South Environmental Service
Centers and the
Westpark Consumer Recycling Center.

And what's the tradeoff of energy saved by the CFLs vs
energy wasted
by all those people making an average 20 mile round trip
burning gas?

People who would travel twenty miles to properly dispose of a defunct CFL
would be riding bicycles. No gas involved.