Mercury in "Green" light bulbs

[Robodoon]

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/343.html Video

A "green" energy-saving light bulb that
is so full of toxic mercury, you're advised to leave your home if it ever breaks!

But it gets better.

Come 2012, you will required BY LAW to
use light bulbs of this type.

To put the cherry on top, there's only
one place in the world that manufactures
them: China.



Comment: Poe should of broke the Bulb in Congress, and seen how the Congressman would respond to a poison vapor cloud floating around that they have mandated every american deal with; poison in every home from CHINA...thanks Congress, just who do you work for?

[Overcast]

Yeah, I bought some this week.

They were some kinda 'eco' bulbs. That had LESS Toxic Chemicals in them!!

HAR HAR, what a farce.

But if it uses less power - what the hell. Since I think it's all a bunch of bullshit anyway, what difference does it make if the light bulbs that get thrown out are dripping mercury into the environment? It's probably far less garbage than the government saturates us with in Chemtrails and Drinking Water anyway.

[larsonstdoc]

  I think I remember Alex saying that if one of these bulbs break you have to have a professional come in and change the bulb wit a HAZMAT kit!  Like the fluoride and the vaccines, these bulbs will be good for us.  In a few years we probably all turn green (like old meat).  Speaking of meat, did you know that they treat meat with CARBON MONOXIDE to keep it red?  Carbon monoxide is what will kill you if you sit in your car with the garage door closed!!!

[Overcast]

Yes - I've heard that completely independently of AJ.

It's to make the meat 'look better' - so it can sit on the shelf longer.

[shirteesdotnet]

These bulbs are going to become law? BS! No way. And if we dont use them? We get arrested? This is ridiculous. When I first heard these were toxic about a year ago I read an article about a woman trying to change on of these bulbs in her daughters bedroom. It broke so the woman decided (trying to be a good citizen) to call her local city hall and ask what the proper way is to dispose of the bulb. She was redirected to OSHA and they immediately sent a HAZMAT team to clean up the light bulb. The daughters bedroom was taped off for a month and family members were not allowed in. I dont think that is even why this got in the news... it was because the mom was given a bill for $20,000 (or some way over the top number she couldnt pay) for the clean up. While I agree the fee was stupid... no one was too concerned that a bedroom had to be quarantined for a month after a LIGHT BULB broke.

And here the last several months I have been replacing my green bulbs for regular ones again.

[baldguy]

I seriously had no idea they were so toxic. Most of my house is already converted. Now what am I going to do with those bulbs?

[rawiron1]

HELLO!  Every neon light on every sign and every flurecent light since the 1960s has had merc in it!  This is not something new folks!  At my part time job (gun shop/range) I have to have a heavy metals test twice a year.  My merc levels are 0 to normal.  I don't know what the big freaking deal is about the merc in the spiral bulbs because every flurecent tube in your office, home, etc. has had the stuff in there since flurecent tubes went main stream in the 1960s.  I talked to my folks and they have been using flurecent bulbs/tubes in their home since the 1970s and have never broken one.  What are you people doing with these things?  Having light tube saber duals or what?!?  When my Dad was in Korea the Air Force thought that he had an intestinal blockage.  So they made him drink liquid mercury to see if it passed through!!  MADE HIM DRINK THE MERC!  HELLO!  They told him that if he was pooping merc within 30 minutes that he either didn't have a blockage or that the blockage was minor.  Turned out that he had an infection and they treated it with meds.  My Dad use to buy merc at the 5 and Dime store to coat nickles with as a kid.  Back then they called it Quick Silver.  Kids use to buy the stuff to play with for crying out loud!  Did all your parents get merc poisoning?  No!  Ask any WWII generation person if they played with quick silver as a kid growing up.  They all did and none of them got merc poisoning.  This is just more fear mongering.  Last year in DC a kid broke a merc thermometer.  Freaking HAZMAT team and cops showed up with the fire department!  HELLO!  Total over reaction!  I agree that these bulbs should be handled with care and that they should be recycled but take a freaking chill pill alread!  By the way.  The manufacturers of these bulbs say that they will be merc free in the next few years.  Probably will be using something more potent.

Jason

[David Rothscum]

HELLO!  Every neon light on every sign and every flurecent light since the 1960s has had merc in it!  This is not something new folks!  At my part time job (gun shop/range) I have to have a heavy metals test twice a year.  My merc levels are 0 to normal.  I don't know what the big freaking deal is about the merc in the spiral bulbs because every flurecent tube in your office, home, etc. has had the stuff in there since flurecent tubes went main stream in the 1960s.  I talked to my folks and they have been using flurecent bulbs/tubes in their home since the 1970s and have never broken one.  What are you people doing with these things?  Having light tube saber duals or what?!?  When my Dad was in Korea the Air Force thought that he had an intestinal blockage.  So they made him drink liquid mercury to see if it passed through!!  MADE HIM DRINK THE MERC!  HELLO!  They told him that if he was pooping merc within 30 minutes that he either didn't have a blockage or that the blockage was minor.  Turned out that he had an infection and they treated it with meds.  My Dad use to buy merc at the 5 and Dime store to coat nickles with as a kid.  Back then they called it Quick Silver.  Kids use to buy the stuff to play with for crying out loud!  Did all your parents get merc poisoning?  No!  Ask any WWII generation person if they played with quick silver as a kid growing up.  They all did and none of them got merc poisoning.  This is just more fear mongering.  Last year in DC a kid broke a merc thermometer.  Freaking HAZMAT team and cops showed up with the fire department!  HELLO!  Total over reaction!  I agree that these bulbs should be handled with care and that they should be recycled but take a freaking chill pill alread!  By the way.  The manufacturers of these bulbs say that they will be merc free in the next few years.  Probably will be using something more potent.

Jason

That's all nice and well, but when you break these light bulbs you get Mercury vapour. If you inhale that it's extremely dangerous. Here's a report on a kid who got Mercury poisoning from it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3575038

[jimwill]

What are you people doing with these things?  Having light tube saber duals or what?!? 

Have you ever dropped one of those spiral bulbs? Two feet to a carpeted floor and it explodes everywhere. And I DID NOT call HAZMAT! Those things are designed to break easily - that makes more $$$ for the manufacturer! IMO

[David Rothscum]

Soon we'll all be surrounded by breaking lightbulbs so they'll be able to say: "See! This kid wasn't vaccinated but he's still autistic! Now get back to watching television, acting tough at the bar to hide your insecurities, buying cheap crap made by Chinese peasants and learn to live with the fact that your family name will disappear from the face of the planet within a generation or two!