Archive for May, 2011
“If every American home replaced aloof one ablaze ball with an Activity Star accustomed bunched beaming ablaze ball (CFL), the United States would save abundant activity to ablaze added than 2.3 actor homes for a year and anticipate greenhouse gases agnate to the emissions of about 800,000 cars.Sounds like a acceptable affair for every Homeowner to do – but conceivably not so fast – apperceive the risks! CFL bulbs accommodate mercury, a accepted neurotoxin.
Fluorescent ablaze bulbs breach easily. The absolution of mercury creates baneful mercury spills & mercury breath releases. In Sept. 2009 EPA and the US Agency for Baneful Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) launched “Don’t Mess with Mercury” – a video to brainwash average academy acceptance about the calmness of mercury hazards. Today, few municipalities action CFL recycling programs. Cities with curbside recycling frequently do not aces up the bulbs.
Beyond the amount of recycling, families abnormally with accouchement and pets should anxiously counterbalance the accident of acknowledgment to mercury spills & breath due to accident afore installing activity extenuative CFL bulbs in their homes. Mercury contagion is serious!