Toxic Environmentalism
March 19, 2008New light bulbs brought to you by the Global Warming shysters will poison us all. Thanks a lot assholes:
Even a single CFL could provide toxic levels of exposure for mercury. One contains five milligrams of mercury, which would be enough to contaminate 6,000 gallons of drinking water. Low-mercury models have about one-sixth of the amount, but that’s still enough to contaminate 1,000 gallons. It makes the CFL one of the most toxic components of a household, one that causes kidney and brain damage when people get exposed to enough of it.
What happens when an incandescent bulb hits the floor? Simple: sweep it up, and try not to step on a shard of glass with bare feet.
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There are fairly easy cleanup methods fortunately.
And recycling is now available nation wide at Home Depot. A recycler is even operating in Regina. I have a post about CFLs going up in a couple days, you might want to watch for it.
There is more Hg coming out of our coal-fired plants each day than you’ll ever expose yourself to by breaking and than inhaling that in a CFL bulb.
An apartment building here in Saskatoon recently replaced all of their fixtures with CFL bulbs and is slated to save 10K a year in energy bills…..I wonder how much Hg will be saved from reaching our environment because of that?
Fairly easy like this:
1. Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
2. Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.
3. Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
4. Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
5. Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes and place them in the glass jar or plastic bag.
6. Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
7. Immediately place all cleanup materials outside the building in a trash container or outdoor protected area for the next normal trash.
8. Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing cleanup materials.
9. Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states prohibit such trash disposal and require that broken and unbroken lamps be taken to a recycling center.
10. For at least the next few times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window prior to vacuuming.
11. Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
And recycling is a great idea assuming 100% compliance which we both know is impossible.
Not arguing the money and energy savings Sean, there should be a way to do it without adding more poison to our households.
There will be when LED lights roll around within the decade. But for now, as Sean pointed out, reducing our energy consumption is something even Sask Power recommends. Not a Winter goes by now without us setting a new pollutio..er energy consumption record on a single coldest day.
The point about 100% compliance isn’t a bad one. It sounds like yet another argument for curb side recycling in the province (like the SK Liberals were calling for in the election).