Anyone break an ecobulb in their home?
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SilentBob187
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Dude, I've heard so much bulls- about those bulbs. I've heard that if they break you have to call poison control and inform them that there was a hazard waste spill and they have to come out to 'properly dispose' of the bulb.
It's amazing what people are willing to sell you under the guise of going green. And all of this begs the question. What are we to do when the bulbs burn out? We can't throw them away, that's just like putting mercury into the water table in your area.
After some quick googling, Home Depot (in this area anyway) has a dropoff site at their locations for CFLs. I want to know how they're actually disposed of or recycled personally...if it's anything like CRT monitors and other electronic devices I'd be a little disappointed.
It's amazing what people are willing to sell you under the guise of going green. And all of this begs the question. What are we to do when the bulbs burn out? We can't throw them away, that's just like putting mercury into the water table in your area.
After some quick googling, Home Depot (in this area anyway) has a dropoff site at their locations for CFLs. I want to know how they're actually disposed of or recycled personally...if it's anything like CRT monitors and other electronic devices I'd be a little disappointed.
Ubiyca
Banned
Yes sir.
I don't give a **** about disposing about the bulb though.. I threw it in the trash (lucky it was garbage day)
but I heard the mercury levels can stay very high EVEN after ventilating the room for days..
UGH
It's such bs I agree
I was in the process of replacing all my bulbs with the original stuff, and bam one broke accidentally.. they are very fragile.. and poisionous.. nice combo.
In american the regular bulbs will be outlawed by 2012 supposedly.. your government loves you.. lol
Dude this whole green movement is a scam.
Read this...
In 1990, writes Jim Tucker, the Bilderbergers adopted climate change as the
preferred model to impose global government and reintroduce serfdom. "Like
the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group discovered the issue of
environmental deterioration. Bilderbergers embraced a report from the
Trilateral Commission that year on the environment, because the potential
profit in cleaning up the mess would be immense."
The following year, the Club of Rome think tank published The First Global
Revolution, a book suggesting a draconian neo-Malthusianism "limit to
growth" approach will solve the world's problems, in fact a problem the
global elite has with humanity. "In searching for a new enemy to unite us,
we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water
shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill," the book states. "All
these dangers are caused by human intervention," and thus the "real enemy,
then, is humanity itself."
The Club of Rome's members, including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and
Mikhail Gorbachev, believe humanity requires "a common motivation, namely a
common adversary" in order to realize world government. It does not matter
if this common enemy is "a real one or. one invented for the purpose." In
the process of struggling against this implacable enemy, democracy "will be
made to seem responsible for the lagging economy, the scarcity and
uncertainties. The very concept of democracy could then be brought into
question and allow for the seizure of power."
Richard Haass, the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations,
expanded on this topic in his article, State sovereignty must be altered in
globalized era. According to Haass, a system of world government must be
created and sovereignty eliminated in order to fight global warming and
terrorism, both invented as the Club of Rome suggested. "Some governments
are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of
global climate change," writes Haass. "The goal should be to redefine
sovereignty for the era of globalization, to find a balance between a world
of fully sovereign states and an international system of either world
government or anarchy."
In addition to pushing the junk science of climate change, our rulers are
systematically taking down the global economy in order to impose what Haass
describes as "an international system of either world government or
anarchy."
Prior to the election, Obama called for drastically reducing carbon
emissions. "President elect Barack Obama used his speech at a Los Angeles
summit last night to reinvigorate a push for the revival of a frightening
proposal to slash carbon emissions by 80 per cent, a move that would inflict
a new Great Depression, cost millions of jobs, and sink America to near
third world status," Paul Joseph Watson wrote for Prison Planet on November
19, 2008. "Obama's agenda to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent is a huge
leap towards the ultimate goal, expressed by the Carnegie Institute earlier
this year and afforded sober credibility by the corporate media - a complete
reduction down to zero carbon emissions."
"Zero carbon emissions? That would lead to the near complete reversal of
hundreds of years of technological progress and man's return to the stone
age," Watson incredulously notes.
It may indeed be a "tough sell to get a law passed in the United States that
could lead to higher energy prices," as Energy Secretary Steven Chu
suggests.
Congress under the Democrats, however, was able to pass the largest tax and
spend bill in U.S. history with relatively little opposition. In the months
ahead, with the help of the corporate media, they will crank up the
propaganda about climate change and eventually impose punitive carbon taxes
on the American people, a scheme that may eventually lead to the near
complete reversal of hundreds of years of technological progress and man's
return to the stone age.
SilentBob187
Well-known member
And here I was thinking I would sleep well tonight.
Oh yeah, found an article that said you'll be fine, there's very little mercury in those bulbs and it vaporizes so windows open for a few hours should get most/if not all of it out of the room. That's right, n=1. I read one thing and am assuming it's true. My google is strong.
Oh yeah, found an article that said you'll be fine, there's very little mercury in those bulbs and it vaporizes so windows open for a few hours should get most/if not all of it out of the room. That's right, n=1. I read one thing and am assuming it's true. My google is strong.
Ubiyca
Banned
And here I was thinking I would sleep well tonight.
Oh yeah, found an article that said you'll be fine, there's very little mercury in those bulbs and it vaporizes so windows open for a few hours should get most/if not all of it out of the room. That's right, n=1. I read one thing and am assuming it's true. My google is strong.
Yeah I read that too, see the thing is, then I read this thing about some guys doing tests and etc and actually there is a lot of mercury that stays there for awhile..
Also.. there is not simply 5mg in those bulbs.. it depends on the watts.. if its 100.. it is likely 18mg of mercury in there! 5mg is an average..
They basically state everything the manfactures say about the ecobulbs then take it down piece by piece by stating their own FACTS from their studies which are quite frightening.. I will try and find the link.
Apparently I read, a room would need to be aired out for at least 6 hours or so, but the EPA says like 15mins which they disprove is nowhere near enough time.. *sigh*
