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Broken Energy-Saving Compact Fluorescent Bulb Costs $2000 in Mercury Cleanup Costs (May 2007, Maine)
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05/06/07 03:52 PM
05/06/07 03:52 PM
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OP
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Here are excerpts from an article out of the Ellsworth American a few weeks ago that has recently become quite the national spectacle regarding those ever so Enivronmentally touted 'Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs'
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>On March 13, Brandy Bridges was installing some of the two dozen CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) bulbs she had purchased in ?an attempt to save money on her energy bill.
One month later, though, Bridges is paying much more than she had ever expected to.
On that Tuesday, Bridges was installing one of the spiral-shaped light bulbs in her 7-year-old daughter's bedroom. Suddenly, the bulb plummeted to the floor, breaking on the shag carpet.
Bridges, who was wary of the dangers of cleaning up a fluorescent bulb, called The Home Depot where she purchased them. She was told that the bulbs had mercury in them and that she should not vacuum the area where the bulb had broken. Bridges was directed to call the Poison Control hotline.
Poison Control directed her to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Environmental Protection.
Upon reaching the DEP the next day, the agency offered to send a specialist out to Bridges' house to test the air levels. The specialist arrived soon after the phone conversation and began testing the downstairs, where he found safe levels of mercury - below the state's limit of 300 ng/m3 (nanograms per cubic meter).
In the daughter's bedroom, the levels remained well below the 300 mark, except for near the carpet where the bulb broke. There the mercury levels spiked to 1,939 ng/m3. On a bag of toys that bulb fragments had landed on, the levels of mercury were 556 ng/m3.
Bridges was told by the specialist not to clean up the bulb and mercury powder by herself. He recommended the Clean Harbors Environmental Services branch in Hampden.
Clean Harbors gave Bridges a low-ball estimate of $2,000, based on what she described, to clean up the room properly. The work entailed removing anything with levels greater than 300 ng/m3, including the carpeting.
One month later, Bridges' daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic "to avoid any dust blowing around" and to keep the family's pets from going in and out of the room.
Her daughter, Shayley, has to sleep downstairs in a full house that already consists of Bridges' fiancé, her 71-year-old mother and her handicapped brother.
Today, Bridges is "gathering finances" to pay the $2,000 for the cleaning herself. That won't cover the cost for new carpeting and other items that will have to be replaced. Her insurance company said it wouldn't cover the costs because mercury is considered a pollutant, like oil.
One month later, Bridges is still searching for answers. She has contacted staff members from the offices of U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) to tell them about her situation but has received no response.
She has talked with representatives from the CDC and DEP and spent roughly two to three hours a day over the past several weeks, talking on the phone and in person and contacting local papers to get the word out on what she believes are dangerous light bulbs.
And, she said, she is wondering why the DEP "publicly recanted the statement" it made to an area newspaper, in which DEP officials said it was safe to clean up the CFL bulbs using household materials.
"I'm really upset. They should not change their story just because it does not fit into a good plan for these light bulbs," said Bridges. "I'm trying my best to keep my family safe and the state just keeps trying to cover it up."
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So if what they say is true, and you can really save up to $180 per year by switching every light bulb in your house to a CFL, then it will only take the Bridges 11 years to recoup their costs!
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Re: Broken Energy-Saving Compact Fluorescent Bulb Costs $2000 in Mercury Cleanup Costs (May 2007, Maine)
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05/06/07 10:56 PM
05/06/07 10:56 PM
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I've encountered broken mercury lights in my place of work, which I'm sure has been horrible for me. But I can't not work, so I'm not going to stress too much about it. I can change my job to reduce my exporuse to the bulbs, as I'm working on. I'll still be in the vicinity of the area where these bulbs broke. Thankfully they haven't broken on any carpets, yet.
If you think deeper, it's fairly irresponsible to mass sell these bulbs as the average person who doesn't recycle even aluminum cans will buy them to save on electric bills. They'll pay no attention to the warning labels, and toss them into the trash just as they would a normal bulb. Not maliciously, there just isn't enough education on the issue. Of course this will further propogate the circulation of mercury into our daily environment. Wanna make a bet the elites planned it this way? Some days I wonder why even bother.
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LED Lights
#18566
05/10/07 12:23 AM
05/10/07 12:23 AM
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LED lights are very promising as they are better and safer all the way around than the CFL mercury ones, but they definitely need more development... just like solar energy also... if we had only put the r&d into it years ago we would be in so much a better position now instead of the environmental crisis (and the wars over bloodlust for oil) constantly hanging over our heads.
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Re: LED Lights
#18567
05/10/07 12:28 AM
05/10/07 12:28 AM
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OP
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Maine, USA
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Re: Broken Energy-Saving Compact Fluorescent Bulb Costs $2000 in Mercury Cleanup Costs (May 2007, Maine)
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06/21/07 11:57 AM
06/21/07 11:57 AM
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Russ you think you've got problems in the USA? At least you have a choice. In Australia a press release on 20th Feb announced that the Federal Government is phasing out the incandescent light globe (the ordinary light globe) over the next 3 years. See this local newspaper report--- http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=21785A government website lists a FAQ's page see----http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/education/cfls.html Of course no mention of Mercury or how do deal with broken globes!!!! Effectively this will mean most will be forced to use CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lights or Globes). The only alternative (if you can afford to) being to retro fit your entire home with energy inefficient halogens!! Of course that doesnt mean you wont be exposed in other houses, school, workplace, public area, shops and so on. What can one to do? So is that one small step forward and one giant step backward???
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Re: Broken Energy-Saving Compact Fluorescent Bulb Costs $2000 in Mercury Cleanup Costs (May 2007, Maine)
#18569
06/21/07 02:30 PM
06/21/07 02:30 PM
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Does anyone know about the mercury exposure from bulbs that are not broken? How much mercury vapor is outgassed especially when they are being used given the high temperature of the bulbs?
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