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Massive Groundwater Mercury Cleanup
Is it five years from now when the first big wave of long-lasting CFL bulbs will hit American garbage cans? I understand that it's more mercury in the air today to generate electricity for incandescents than is used in the CFL bulbs today. But our children or grandchildren will curse us and pay billions to clean-up the groundwater polluted by ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by ScheduleC on February 13, 2008
Pushing CFL bulbs is highly irresponsible!
The Fray's pushing for CFL bulbs is a highly irresponsible, and somewhat mis-informed effort. People being what they are, most will continue to throw away CFLs in the trash, where they're broken, releasing the mercury into landfills, then runoff, ground water, and finally the oceans, where it's concentrated by the various food layers until we ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by swamper777 on February 9, 2008