On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:33:17 GMT, dave wrote:

| On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:25:47 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
| wrote:
|
| 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 :-(
|
| And considerably less than that in a Hg switch I have. But that's kind of
| irrelevant isn't it. Can't see what mad about trying to avoid a poison risk. Ok
| it's not exactly plutonium I know. "Mad" and "Hg" in the same sentence is very
| appropriate

So all according to you all risks are to be avoided at *any* cost. So you
do not travel on the roads to avoid the risk of being one of the ten people
who die in traffic accidents each day in the UK.

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Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk
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Animal rights terrorists and activists kill innocent patients.