You still believe our politicians wouldn't mandate/force something into our homes that would be hazardous?
Better educate yourself: Here's the warnings in my state:
http://www.maine.gov/dep/rwm/homeowner/cflbreakcleanup.htm
Not only are the dangerous in the home but anyone who thinks that everyone is going to package up the broken/used ones and cart them off to a hazardous waste center and pay for disposal is naive to the max.
These things will, by the millions, be thrown into the regular trash and all our landfills across the country have the potential to become major toxic waste dumps.
Wake up, Sheeple. The gov't tells us, first, what kind of toilet we can/can't have. Now they are controlling what kind of light bulbs we can have.............we need to tell the gov't to GET OUT OF OUR HOMES.
In the meantime, I'm stocking up on conventional bulbs and making sure I have enough lamps to last my lifetime as they are also going to mandate light fixtures be restricted to take ONLY these little bombs.
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Mercury can be poisonous. But you can’t contract mercury poisoning by walking by the spot where a bulb has been broken and just LOOKING at it.
We are talking about minute quantities here. As long as you are reasonably prudent and don’t regularly inhale the scrapings from the inside of broken compact flourescent bulbs like cocaine, you are perfectly safe.
Would this amount of mercury be poisonous in landfills? Probably not, unless the landfills are badly located. But it would do no harm to recycle them. The problem is that the “scientists” who work for government agencies simply cannot be trusted to give neutral scientific advice. One minute they are screaming to outlaw incandescent bulbs, and the next minute they will predictably be screaming to outlaw compact flourescents.
You can lay in a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs if you want, although they cost four times as much to run. Maybe we should lay in a lifetime supply of compact flourescents, because who knows what these moonbats will outlaw next?