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CFL Cleanup: Harder Than It Sounds
If mercury gets out of bulbs, clean up is expensive.
Cleaning up after a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) breaks is a big proposition -- believe it or not.
With the new federal law mandating the elimination of "inefficient" light bulbs by 2012, CFLs are increasingly a green alternative that integrators will have available.
But what many consumers and integrators don't know is that CFLs contain mercury -- yeah, the stuff that you used to play with when you broke a thermometer (but probably shouldn't have).
So what happens when a CFL bulb breaks and the mercury leaks out?
The NBC Nightly News took a look at this on their March 20 broadcast -- and found out some eye-opening information.
Watch the video below.
With the new federal law mandating the elimination of "inefficient" light bulbs by 2012, CFLs are increasingly a green alternative that integrators will have available.
But what many consumers and integrators don't know is that CFLs contain mercury -- yeah, the stuff that you used to play with when you broke a thermometer (but probably shouldn't have).
So what happens when a CFL bulb breaks and the mercury leaks out?
The NBC Nightly News took a look at this on their March 20 broadcast -- and found out some eye-opening information.
Watch the video below.
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Been trying to explain this to people for the past year. We have been trying to get people to use incandenscents with lighting control instead for the energy savings until a viable LED bulb is availalbe and skip using CFLs all together.