— unpredictable thoughts

compact-fluorescent menace : one big bad idea

Do you use these light­bulbs? Do you like the light they cast? What do you when one breaks? Got any small childeren?

I’ll answer first. No I don’t use them. No I don’t like the light. Don’t have to worry about it. No kids.

Did you know these bulbs con­tain mer­cury? You may remem­ber that ther­mome­ters with mer­cury were banned. Ok so it’s only a lit­tle bit of mer­cury, but a lit­tle bit is more than enough. Mer­cury does not go away. Don’t want to eat fish with Mer­cury do ya? When the bulb breaks the mer­cury is released into the air… yep.

With con­gres­sional man­dates we’ll be see­ing lots more of them.

I hate these things. Not because of what they look like I think the phys­i­cal shape is sort of cool. I hate them because peo­ple can’t even recy­cle or dis­pose of glass bot­tles or paint cans — just imag­ine mil­lions of these poi­son light bulbs.

I’m stock­ing up on incan­des­cent bulbs.

Tags: mer­cury, bulbs, light, recy­cling, green­ish, envi­ron­men­tal