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Incandescent bulb vs Compact Fluorescent some basic questions
mvsfan:
this isnt intended to be an anti environment statement either, its just reality.
with that said, I think green bulbs are a good thing. we do need less poisonous things out there. their was something i heard a lot about when i was growing up, one of the biggest federal superfund sites, the windsor road landfill off of sunrise boulevard in Fort lauderdale florida, was closed down in the early 1970s and nobody ever thought about it much. it was one of the few forgotten mountains in florida. (their arent any mountains or hills there except garbage its all flat land.)
anyways, it took a full generation and all of a sudden the households within a 10 mile radius started having Deformed or Retarted children in alarming numbers as well as they themselves getting sick. high rates of cancers and other maladies and such.
personally to this day i would dread if i lived anywhere near a landfill. its not just the garbage smell.
those folks had it really bad though. windsor road operated from 1955 long before the epa and when everything you wanted to get rid of was gladly accepted. To me, thats a scary proposition.
The result of green bulbs is this. Eventually unless they close that loophole, eventually what it means is that only 50% of the mercury that would end up in the trash does end up there.
But if it makes you feel good to buy everything labeled green, i hope this is a nice wake up.
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