Your government at work, Fluorescent Light Bulbs

You naturally are free to believe whatever you choose, but it seems you fail
to understand most of what you read, including the information from the
sites you search.

You remind me of the scientist that noticed every time he waved his hand the
fly on his desk would fly away, only to return. He caught the fly and
pulled off its wings. This time when he waved his hand the fly stayed put.
He wrote in his journal; "If a fly looses its wings it apparently can not
longer see. Conclusion: "They must see with there wings and not their
eyes." LOL

"Jeff" <kidsdoc2000.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mike hunt wrote:
>> Do your own homework, it should be obivious
>
> I did. I found out that only 1/2 the aluminum cans are recycled. That
> tells me that separation at transfer stations is not happening nearly
> often enough. It argues that curbside recycling is the surest method to
> get an aluminum can recycled (outside of requiring a deposit and refunding
> the money when can is returned).

Are you guys that slow? The point of the post was the EPA's effort to
inform one that there is a FEDERAL regulation that applies to industry,
concerning disposal of spilled mercury and the related vapors as well as to
broken Mercury light bulbs, including the tube types that have been in use
for ages.

For now the EPA is only RECOMMENDS one follow the regulation on to how to
clean up after the ones that you have broken in your home. If there is a
regulation that means at some point the environuts can sue to have the EPA
enforced that regulation on YOU, as well as industry, or pay a fine.

There are hundreds of similar regulations on disposal of so called
"hazardous" product for industries for which there is nothing in the law
DISTINGUISHING industry from ones home.

Technically even today one is in violation of EPA regulation for dozens of
things one routinely places in one garbage can. Containers of Clorox, spray
paint, hairspray, even drain cleaner can not be placed in a land fill.

If you think not, try to get ride of a tire, battery or refrigerator without
going to a recycling center and paying a fee.

As for me when it comes to the time incandescent lamps are going to be
outlawed, I will do what I did when asbestos and Freon was banned, I'll buy
lots of the old fashioned bulbs. I still have several boxes fo Freon for
my old cars that I bought at $1,75 a pound

<rantonrave.RemoveThis@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Mike hunt wrote:
>>
>>It is my understand that all of them are imported, NO US manufacture is
>>making the bulbs because of the EPA regulations on mercury make it too
>>costly.
>>As too "licking the bulbs," mercury is not a problem in its liquid state.
>>Mercury has been used for a long time as a medicine. Inhaling Mercury
>>VAPORS is the problem.
>
> Mercury is a problem, whether liquid or vapor. By the way, how does
> an open container of liquid mercury at room temperature and pressure
> not emit vapor?
>
> Fluorescents have already been providing the majority of the world's
> electric lighting for decades, and the reports I've seen don't
> indicate these compact fluorescents increasing the environmental
> problem by much, especially since they're only a stopgap measure until
> LEDs become dominant.
>
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