Summary
I've just received an interesting and rather frightening warning about the disposal of broken light bulbs. A conventional incandescent bulb, when damaged, can easily be swept up with a hand brush and dust pan and popped into the wheelie bin. End of story.
Not so for the new environmentally-friendly bulbs; those which will combine to save the planet from the worst effects of climate change; or so they say, these "experts" in energy conservation in whom we are being press-ganged into supporting. A woman in Maine, USA, whose daughter's bedroom was contaminated by the mercury liberated from one broken low-energy light bulb called the Home Depot store to ask for advice. She was advised to call a Poison Control hotline where they passed her on to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. They deployed a specialist to the scene who established that mercury levels in the bedroom were six times the State's 'safe' limit (and who decides that?) for mercury contamination and she was told she should engage a clean-up company to decontaminate the room. The bill to do this? $2,000!See the full content of this document
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Beware the Broken Low-Energy Bulb
And that is just one fluorescent light bulb in one home when ev...
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