On 3 Oct 2005 07:41:57 -0700, wrote:

| Dave Fawthrop wrote:
| On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:33:17 GMT, dave wrote:
| | On 03 Oct 2005 00:15:41 GMT, (Andrew Gabriel)
| | wrote:
|
| | | 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.
|
|
| Maybe I understand it... lets see what you think.
|
| When people are facing a big threat they dont think they have any
| control over, they yearn for control over danger, and act this out on
| any adnger they can control. At the same time they do _not_ want to
| think about the real big danger, and denial rules in that area.
|
| How this applies here is this: Our big danger is that 50% of us will
| die from haert disease or cancer. Thats a huge risk, one that shows all
| the part p malarkey for what it is.
|
| Around 50% of this mass death is easily preventable, but nanny isnt
| preventing it, and the general population isnt doing anything to save
| their collective asses either. Theyre walking right into mass death
| because theyre in denial. Theyre controlling the trivia because of the
| urge to control the present danger, plus the fact that they really dont
| want to think about it, and that not looking leads to acting on trivia
| while ignoring the real issue, lik rearranging the deck chairs on the
| titanic.
|
| And because people refuse to face it, they dont notce that 50% of that
| 50% death rate is really not hard to prevent.
|
| Imagine if all these daft laws about not being able to sell veg in
| pounds and ounces, part p and so on were replaced by an equally funded
| effort to do soething about our real killer. The difference in death
| rate would be enormous. The saving in misery would be gargantuan.
|
| But people dont want to look at this because it scares them, they see
| no solution, so lets pretend its a non issue and worry solely about
| silly trivia.

Nicely put :-)

| When it comes to safety this society is completely missing the boat.

Insane would be a better description. :-(

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