On 03 Oct 2005 00:15:41 GMT, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:

| In article ,
| dave writes:
| Do LL lamps (as sold in many diy stores) contain Hg vapour? If so, how should
| they be properly disposed of?
|
| If you mean compact fluorescents, then yes.
|
| Same question of fluorescent lamps - or is there some other element/risk with
| them?
|
| Yes.
|
| If you are a business unit chucking out sizable quantities,
| there are various hazardous waste schemes. For a home, the
| quantites of mercury are too small for anyone to worry about
| it yet. There's more mercury in the fillings in your teeth
| (3g on average goes up the crematorium chimney per person)
| than the amount you will chuck out in fluorescent lamps.

And *considerably* less than the mercury clinical thermometer in my First
Aid cupboard. This Health and Safety obsession is IMO going mad :-(
--
Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk
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