[drunknsage]

Bad news for all you LED users...

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2011/04/surprise-led-bulbs-no-better-than-cfls/

LED’s are no more safer or less toxic than CFL’s.... The more you know...

If you purchase daylight CFL’s, in the 5-6500K range, you arent left with that ugly yellow that alot of folks complain about. I use nothing but 6500k in the house and the lighting looks amazing.

[Wonder Warthog]

Article is garbage. The difference between LED's and CFL's is that the mercury is VOLATILE, and as soon as the bulb is broken, vaporizes into the air. LED's certainly contain some TINY amounts of toxic rare earths, but these are encapsulated in multiple layers of seals and are solids. The only way a homeowner could get an exposure is if he took his LED's and threw them into a trash fire, and then stood downwind of the smoke.

And the likelihood of LED's "leaking" their toxic content, even in a landfill, is virtually zero (see above comment about multiple layers of encapsulation).