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]]> By: Family Vacation in San Francisco — Soapbox Mom http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-6777 Family Vacation in San Francisco — Soapbox Mom Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:51:41 +0000 http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-6777 [...] to playgrounds. No matter where you go on vacation. Sure enough, DS’s face lit up like a CFL when he saw the playground near Zeum. After spending a good chunk of time there, he concluded, [...] […] to playgrounds. No matter where you go on vacation. Sure enough, DS’s face lit up like a CFL when he saw the playground near Zeum. After spending a good chunk of time there, he concluded, […]

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]]> By: Marcela http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-2739 Marcela Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:07:08 +0000 http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-2739 In Spain, if you sell a recyclable product you have to accept them back for recycling. So what Ikea does is just compulsory. Regarding low-consumption lamps, this is funny: The Government taxes you whenever you buy one of them, because reclycling has a cost. Then you take it to the shop when it is fawlty, the shop has to comply and take it back, but they have nowhere to send them for recycling because there are no facilities of the kind! And since they are low-consumption, they are trying to make you buy them, to the extent that they are going to stop selling incandescent bulbs. But then you have to pay the taxes (which are useless) which makes the product more expensive. If it is "ecological", should the use of them not be promoted, say, making them cheaper because the Government pays part of it? Crazy, absolutely crazy... In Spain, if you sell a recyclable product you have to accept them back for recycling. So what Ikea does is just compulsory.

Regarding low-consumption lamps, this is funny: The Government taxes you whenever you buy one of them, because reclycling has a cost. Then you take it to the shop when it is fawlty, the shop has to comply and take it back, but they have nowhere to send them for recycling because there are no facilities of the kind!

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]]> By: Dave http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-1253 Dave Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:12:26 +0000 http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-1253 LED bulbs available to fit a standard lamp will only give off 60 lumens of light compared with 850 lumens from a standard incandescent bulb or 800 from an CFL, all 60 watt equivalent. LED bulbs available to fit a standard lamp will only give off 60 lumens of light compared with 850 lumens from a standard incandescent bulb or 800 from an CFL, all 60 watt equivalent.

]]> By: Ray Warman http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-1120 Ray Warman Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:39:44 +0000 http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-1120 Although I applaud attempts to save energy, I think the CFL bulbs and their use by the public should be totally banded. Just think of the acumulative effects of those that don't know how or just don't clean up period.I don't think people should be trusted on this level. If we are truly concerned for our enviroment, we should take these kinds of risk for the sake of saving energy. Although I applaud attempts to save energy, I think the CFL bulbs
and their use by the public should be totally banded.
Just think of the acumulative effects of those that don’t know how
or just don’t clean up period.I don’t think people should be trusted
on this level.
If we are truly concerned for our enviroment, we should take these kinds of risk for the sake of saving energy.

]]> By: Ernie Wiley http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-1113 Ernie Wiley Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:45:26 +0000 http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/#comment-1113 Thanks, I wasn't aware the CFL Bulbs had Mercury in them. We now know the harm Mercury can do to us all after hearing about it's use in medicine we all took as kids. I wonder if the money you save using CFL Bulbs is worth the risk of getting Mercury in our blood streams. Can't they event something that won't hurt us??? Thanks, I wasn’t aware the CFL Bulbs had Mercury in them. We now know the harm Mercury can do to us all after hearing about it’s use in medicine we all took as kids. I wonder if the money you save using CFL Bulbs is worth the risk of getting Mercury in our blood streams. Can’t they event something that won’t hurt us???

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Great post. I have just one comment to make, which also addresses jptownley’s question:

“The Mercury is used inside the bulbs to increase their efficiency.”

Mercury is used in all fluorescent light fittings but it is not to make them more efficient. The mercury is the light source! An electrical discharge through the tube excites the mercury atoms, vapourising the mercury and causing it to emit UV radiation. Phosphorescent coatings on the lamp convert the UV into visible light.

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