I am an engineer. In the factory, in Georgia, where I worked 10 years ago I was (unwillingly) made the plant environmentalist. I was responsible for solid waste. The government considered fluorescent light bulbs to be hazardous waste and I had to buy special containers to hold them and I had to send them at great expense to hazardous waste landfills. (To save any complaints, yes, technically the government called them “universal” waste.) I quit after a few months and the factory is now long closed along with most of its neighbor factories.
If the government thinks that mercury is hazardous waste, why would they mandate that homes have to use CFLs?
A poor stupid woman in Georgia a few years ago broke a CFL in her child’s bedroom. Knowing about the mercury she called the local government to ask what to do. They sent a haz-mat team to clean it up and it cost her thousands of dollars. One lightbulb.
If you are a proper environmentalist and believe in the religion of GLOBAL WARMING (Whoops, I meant CLIMATE CHANGE… whoops again, I meant CLIMATE CHAOS) then you should LOVE cutting down trees. The lumber companies plant more trees than they cut down (remember, they are greedy capitalists, they want to cut them down again and make more money and jobs). Every tree that grows and is cut down and replaced removes TONS of carbon from the atmosphere. And TREES ARE A RENEWABLE RESOURCE!!! Isn’t that what we want? Oil will take millions of years to make more, TREES GROW BACK!
Using the umbrella on rainy days to press 12.