LOL.
I work for a power company and we encourage our customers to switch to CFLs, but the fear of mercury caused some backlash from the customers. So we announced that you can bring us your old CFLs and we’ll dispose of them properly.
So, one person at each location was designated the “CFL Collector”. The one at my facility is also the office liberal because he really believes in CFLs as “world-saving technology”.
sounds fair, right?
But when he was designated at the CFL Collector and discovered that he would have to keep a box in his office for the CFLs and could dispose of the box only when it was full, he went berserk.
He was in a panic (with actual tears in his eyes!) as he begged his manager not to make him keep a “toxic waste dump” in his office because “if just one of those bulbs breaks, I’ll be poisoned.”
And the “toxic waste dump” box? It was an 18” cardboard cube, lined with double trashbags.
This guy has 6 flourescent tubes in the ceiling of his office, which contain more mercury than he’d have if he filled his box with CFLs, but he was scared of the CFLS because...the media told him to be.