On Nov 18, 12:08*am, Red Green wrote:
harry wrote :





On Nov 16, 7:49*pm, Frank wrote:
On 11/16/2011 1:42 PM, harry wrote:

On Nov 16, 6:03 pm, *wrote:
On Nov 16, 12:57 pm, Tony *wrote:

On 11/16/2011 12:26 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:

On 11/16/11 10:51 am, JP wrote:

read the box
the new bulbs are has-mat& *you can't just trash them when they
b
urn
out.

The cleanup instructions are simple:

http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup.html

The same rules probably applied to those fluorescent tubes we've
bee
n
using for decades -- but maybe nobody was paying attention.

Perce

Gotta love the last question/answer!

What if I can't follow all the recommended steps? or I cleaned up
a C
FL
but didn't do it properly?

Don't be alarmed; these steps are only precautions that reflect
best practices for cleaning up a broken CFL. Keep in mind that
CFLs contai
n a
very small amount of mercury -- less than 1/100th of the amount
in a mercury thermometer.

It sounds as if it's saying, "Don't sweat it, this is all just
bullsh
it
anyway".

Of course it's all bull****.
Someone in the EPA once told me that a discarded mercury
thermometer contained more mercury than a days output of a coal
fired plant. But, this is what happens when you let government go
berserk and control everything.
Individual homeowners can slip under the radar but industry pays
dearly. *That's one big reason corporations are moving their
plants
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Plenty in the USA too. Thanks to half wits like yourself.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...lution-hotspot
...

No sense arguing with a know chemical genius. *My apologies, Harry
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Any body can appear tobe a genius compared with some of the morons
that appear here. Must be something in the water they drink.
Probably mercury. Or lead.

You gotta remember Harry. Decades ago many of us had jars of mercury we
played with in our hands because it was so cool. We just had to touch the
dry ice to see if it really burned. We stuck knifes in outlets. We melted
lead sinkers rught under our noses, etc, etc

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Ah, very sad. I remember getting up to those tricks myself.
The outlets over here were 240 volt. Really make your eyes light up.
Ever tried dropping ice cubes on to molten lead?
Or iodine into ammonia & let the result dry out?
Or bombs with weedkiller and sugar.
The kids today don't have any real fun.