Comments on: CFL Bulbs and Mercury http://whatmommyknows.com/2009/01/28/cfl-bulbs-and-mercury/ Pregnancy, Health, Kids, Family Life, Working and Everything In Between Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://whatmommyknows.com/2009/01/28/cfl-bulbs-and-mercury/comment-page-1/#comment-557 admin Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:39:43 +0000 http://www.malikarisley.com/?p=359#comment-557 I am assuming that people are responsible enough not to throw the CFLs into the garbage. Actually, it should be made illegal! I definitely see your concern with mercury if the bulbs are not being properly disposed of. As for the scrubbers on coal burning plants, they are part of the standard process there. They are used to purify the vapor before discharging it into the atmosphere. But where do you think the water from scrubbers goes? Rivers and oceans! So if mercury is not going into the air, it goes into the water! As far as LED lights, I don't know a whole lot about them, but I'm aware that they are not as bright as the incandescent or CFLs and they quickly fade. I am assuming that people are responsible enough not to throw the CFLs into the garbage. Actually, it should be made illegal! I definitely see your concern with mercury if the bulbs are not being properly disposed of.

As for the scrubbers on coal burning plants, they are part of the standard process there. They are used to purify the vapor before discharging it into the atmosphere. But where do you think the water from scrubbers goes? Rivers and oceans! So if mercury is not going into the air, it goes into the water!

As far as LED lights, I don’t know a whole lot about them, but I’m aware that they are not as bright as the incandescent or CFLs and they quickly fade.

]]> By: eva http://whatmommyknows.com/2009/01/28/cfl-bulbs-and-mercury/comment-page-1/#comment-556 eva Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:38:03 +0000 http://www.malikarisley.com/?p=359#comment-556 Better alternatives are: scrubbers on coal burning plants and LED lights. Both reduce mercury. Better alternatives are: scrubbers on coal burning plants and LED lights. Both reduce mercury.

]]> By: eva http://whatmommyknows.com/2009/01/28/cfl-bulbs-and-mercury/comment-page-1/#comment-552 eva Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:12:17 +0000 http://www.malikarisley.com/?p=359#comment-552 fixed typs. Typical, you've got 'I'm the only person in the world' thinking. Do you understand something called chain of production? To make CFLs new mercury has to mined - voila more mercury iron ore dug from the earth. People have to work at those mercury mines. Millions of people buy millions of CFLs. Then millions of CFLs have to be recycled somewhere by someone and taken somewhere. But to you, you are one person with one lightbulb and so is everyone else. If you make a product, millions of it will be produced, millions of it trashed. So now we have millions of 3.5 mgs of mercury. That's terrific. Talk about a minefield. fixed typs.
Typical, you’ve got ‘I’m the only person in the world’ thinking. Do you understand something called chain of production? To make CFLs new mercury has to mined – voila more mercury iron ore dug from the earth. People have to work at those mercury mines. Millions of people buy millions of CFLs. Then millions of CFLs have to be recycled somewhere by someone and taken somewhere. But to you, you are one person with one lightbulb and so is everyone else. If you make a product, millions of it will be produced, millions of it trashed. So now we have millions of 3.5 mgs of mercury. That’s terrific. Talk about a minefield.

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