It’s odd, though, that the enviroscreamers of yesteryear never saw fit to urge John Q. Public to don hazmat suits when the fluorescent lamps of that day (e.g. kitchen ceiling circlines, medicine cabinet and basement workshop straight tubes) broke. A broom and a dustpan, maybe a non-electric floor sweeper, and that was that. These old lamps had a lot more mercury per bulb than today’s compacts.
A worse scandal is that we are exporting our brownness to China. Recent factories are safer (kudos in particular to Osram/Sylvania), but mercury poisonings used to be fairly common at CFL plants in China.
” These old lamps had a lot more mercury per bulb than today’s compacts.”
Those old lamps made great lite sabers/swords for bored kids also.
Didn’t a congresscritter say on the floor of the House that these not only contained mercury, but they are MADE IN CHINA.