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CFL Cleanup: Harder Than It Sounds
If mercury gets out of bulbs, clean up is expensive.
03.24.2008 — 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.
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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.