<div dir="ltr">Yes they do seem to take it very seriously. My take? I'd rather take the risk of a broken bulb than the harm of using more energy. I've broken a lot of those bulbs and not cleaned them up in any great way. Apart from my normal insanity, depression and memory loss I didn't notice any mercury poisoning effects. To reduce my exposure when they break I usually make my kids clean up the mess. That was a joke.</div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Eli Talking <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elitalking@rockbridge.net" target="_blank">elitalking@rockbridge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">






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have been encouraged to use CFL bulbs to save energy which reduces pollution 
from the reduced production of power that it would take to feed that same amount 
of light of incandescent bulbs.  However, the mercury contained within is 
an environmental threat.  I felt incomplete when there was no way to 
dispose of burnt out bulbs until Lowe’s starting taking them locally.  
However, how should we clean up the inevitable breakage in the home.  
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<div style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Calibri';display:inline;font-weight:normal"><a title="http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl" href="http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl" target="_blank">http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl</a></div>

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wife has picked up on this threat and has insisted we return to the inefficient 
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<div style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Calibri';display:inline;font-weight:normal">Thoughts 
are appreciated on the response to the threat of broken cfl bulbs.  
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LED lights ready to replace the common side lamps?  </div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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