The thing from the woman in Maine is basically "scare-stuff." Someone
made a miscall on the first phone-call, steering her into a bunch of
bureaucracy, red-tape, and expense.
She's "not convinced" by the states assurances about the amount of
mercury in the bulb, and the relative harmlessness of it if handled with
reasonable care. Now, if there are 5 milligrams of mercury in the
fluorescent bulb, and she cleans the room as suggested, there will be a
trace amount of mercury left, nothing that can "do her daughter serious
harm if she breathes the air in that room for years." In fact, I'd
suspect that after the first six months, it'd be hard to find an
elevated mercury level anywhere.
That, of course, won't make a good story. What makes the good story is
this woman telling the world that fluorescent bulbs are a creation of
the devil, and deadly dangerous to all human life.
Just use a bit of reason; don't be careless about cleaning up a broken
CFL. (How many CFLs are broken in the average year, anyway, in one house?)
JimW
Scott Walde wrote:
> Steven Kurylo wrote:
>> To bring this topic back up.... http://18seconds.org/
>
> And, to bring it back up one more time...
>
> http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7446&Itemid=31
>
>
> ttyl
> srw
>
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