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Apr. 29th, 2007 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThis article is really interesting. I'll have to look into this further, but I'm reconsidering my practice of exclusively buying compact fluorescents for lighting.
It seems a woman in Maine broke a CF lightbulb in her house. She knew they contain mercury, so she called Home Depot (where she bought the bulb) to ask about cleanup. They referred her to poison control who referred her to the Maine department of the EPA. As a result of their investigation, the room has been sealed off and she is looking at a $2000 mercury abatement fee to clean it up. She's working on saving up the money now.
I don't have enough knowledge of the substance involved to know for sure, but it seems like that may be something of an over reaction. Still, I think we owe it to ourselves to look into the ramifications of using CF lighting instead of incandescent.
I wonder if LED manufacture involves mercury. I'll be all over LED lighting when it becomes available, as long as it isn't worse, environmentally speaking, then the other options.
It seems a woman in Maine broke a CF lightbulb in her house. She knew they contain mercury, so she called Home Depot (where she bought the bulb) to ask about cleanup. They referred her to poison control who referred her to the Maine department of the EPA. As a result of their investigation, the room has been sealed off and she is looking at a $2000 mercury abatement fee to clean it up. She's working on saving up the money now.
I don't have enough knowledge of the substance involved to know for sure, but it seems like that may be something of an over reaction. Still, I think we owe it to ourselves to look into the ramifications of using CF lighting instead of incandescent.
I wonder if LED manufacture involves mercury. I'll be all over LED lighting when it becomes available, as long as it isn't worse, environmentally speaking, then the other options.
