On Apr 30, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Russell McMahon wrote:

> I don't recall ever having heard anyone suggest that CFL
> bulbs should be treated as hazardous or disposed of in
> ways appropriate for toxic materials.
>
Yep; have to be treated (along with all other fluorescent bulbs)
as "household hazardous waste" here in granola-land...  Of course,
if you've BROKEN the bulb, the HHW places won't accept it anymore,
and I don't think you're supposed to put it in your trash, either,
so you're pretty screwed.  I can't wait for it to be illegal to
break a fluorescent tube, and for terrorist to shut down shopping
malls my throwing a few cases of tubes on the ground...  They WILL
keep putting text in the laws about "any detectable amount" even
though detection methods keep getting better and better...

(I assume this also why you have to pay the hazardous eWaste
purchase-time fee on LCD monitors?  Maybe not.  I can't see
them repealing that tax just because RoHS has come along...)

BillW
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