Space-saving bulb crusher used Labwide
Note that the device is engineered to recover the mercury vapor and transform it into non-hazardous mercuric sulfide. Now all this fancy equipment would not be necessary if incandescent bulbs were used.
Fluorescents have their place in businesses, office buildings, etc. and maybe this device can be used for disposal of these bulbs. But for individual homeowners, treating a broken bulb as a haz-mat incident or disposing of it as hazardous waste is a burdensome task made necessary by the banning of a simple light bulb design that has been serving mankind for over 130 years. There is Republican-proposed federal legislation to overturn the ban on incandescent bulbs (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2685547/posts)
And totally unneccessary because the EPA regulates industry, not a homeowner (...yet!). Just toss those suckers in the weekly trash.
Wasn’t there something the other day about the OTHER leftist boondoggle, low flow toilets, causing environmental problems?
The economics of the CFLs is bogus because not only is there a costly disposal problem, but my experience is they do not last nearly as long as advertised. They are everywhere yet there is no user friendly way to properly dispose of them, therefore they are going to the landfills with the rest of the household trash.
Another boondoggle brought about by lobbyist promoting foreign interests with pockets full of cash for campaigns.
