The TV Show “Wa$ted” is coming to Long Island NY
Gosh, I don’t even know if we have anyone to cleanup mercury here in my town in Alaska. I’ve always just thrown the broken CFL bulbs in the garbage, I didn’t know any better since they don’t tell us much up here in Alaska, LOL. They need to have something at the landfills where you can either dispose of the bulbs yourself or someone there can do it if you bring them in. You have a very good point though Lenny, they’re pushing a product that they aren’t telling people all the details about and people are disposing of them as they are used to (the garbage), and this could be a very bad thing in our future.
Amber
Lenny V. aka GoldLenny wrote: > > The funniest thing about environmentalist whackos (EW’s) is the CFL’s. The > cost and energy to make one, versus the cost to buy and run them are > certainly worthwhile but then the cost to the consumer and taxpayers for > long term cleanup will be staggering. > > When one of them breaks in your home and then you have to call in the DEQ > and EPA to clean up the mercury, who’s going to pay for it? Will they > affect the resale on your home when you have to do a mercury disclosure > statement much like older homes have to do a lead paint disclosure right > now. > > In most States, if you break one of these bulbs in your home, you are > supposed to bring in an environmental hazmat team to clean up and properly > dispose of the mercury. Throwing them in with your garbage could be a > violation of environmental laws as well. > > Watch and see if these same EW’s who run many of our universities aren’t > screaming for grant money to study what to do with all of the mercury > poisoning in our water aquifers from the mercury leaching from > landfills in > the future… because of the CFL’s the EW’s pushed on people today. > > The EW’s at NPR are already lobbying Congress for money to study the > issue. > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7431198 > > > “…Experts agree that it’s not easy for most people to recycle these > bulbs. > Even cities that have curbside recycling won’t take the bulbs. So people > have to take them to a hazardous-waste collection day or a special > facility….” > > Give me liberty or give me death… just keep their damned tax-and-spend > hands out of my wallet! LOL > > Lenny Vasbinder > Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com > (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right > side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month) > > —–Original Message—– > From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > > [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > ] On > Behalf Of turbocoupe76 > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 6:27 PM > To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [AquaticLife] Re: The TV Show “Wa$ted” is coming to Long > Island NY > > Actually my wife answered an ad on craigslist because the heading was > “Looking for people with lots of pets” My wife said “We Do” > > Take a look: www.littlefallsfarm.tripod.com > > though the amount of animals we have arent much for a farm, ya got to > remember we are in a 1900 sq ft home and a 1/4 acre of property in the > middle of surburbia. > > The last show they had a huge house with 8 cars/suvs and quads etc. > To change all the lite bulbs to cfls they need 160 of them. Thats not us!! > > With that said Ive seen a couple of shows and since you do win a few grand > why not. Though they tend to dumb you down but at least we get our 15 > min of > fame. I think we will have a good time with it. > >
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