[SustainableTompkins] broken CFL/mercury clean up

[Joel and Sarah Gagnon]

All this back and forth about CFLs has reawakened a question I have had for 
years. What about non-compact fluorescent tubes? You know, the straight 
ones, 2 or 4 feet long, and the circline bulbs. Don't they contain mercury 
too? They break pretty easily too, if disposed of in the trash. I have been 
saving them for years, pending resolution of the question.

Joel

At 06:00 PM 6/29/08 -0400, you wrote:



>Thanks to Tom Shelley for the great write-up on CFLs.  I get questions
>on this all the time, and it seems like certain media outlets have
>been very effective in scaring people about the mercury in CFLs.  I
>know my mom believed every word that Rush Limbaugh had to say on the
>topic.
>Good news is that NYSERDA has been working on setting up collection
>sites for recycling of the bulb's contents across the state.  Looks
>like this effort is happening in other states given Home Depot's
>decision to take back CFLs in all its stores.  See article below.  I
>believe Wegman's is doing this too in some of its stores, as is Lowe's.
>Gay