OK, I'll address this rant.
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At our house we recycle all recyclable items--why...because it's the right thing to do for our environment. And we don't have curbside pickup...I personally take this stuff to a recycle center about ten miles away once per month. So please don't tell me things cannot be recycled. What you meant to say is that 'you' aren't going to recycle anything which is your choice.
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Good for you and so do I. My point is most WON'T.
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Originally Posted by OldManOnFire
And wow...you make the ASSUMPTION that the mercury in the oceans come from fluorescent lights??
pollution comes mostly from industrial emissions to the atmosphere...primarily from coal burning processes. Once in the air, the rains and snows bring them back to Earth, either onto the land where they are washed into rivers and the oceans, or directly into the oceans.
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Actually
you're assuming that's what I meant. I know exactly where ocean pollution comes from. I was talking about man's ability to pollute the vastness of the ocean because you seem to think that it's not possible to pollute even a minute area like a landfill with these. We already are. Businesses don't recycle their FL's and neither will all these people buying buttloads of mercury laden light bulbs that give you migranes.
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Originally Posted by OldManOnFire
Some businesses are 'pouring' money into LED development and LED's have already found their way into thousands of products.
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And I merely advocating them here. Talk aboiut "green" lighiting.
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And what's wrong with a good ecological choice??
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That's the problem. It isn't any better an ecological choice than incandescent lights.
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Originally Posted by OldManOnFire
I don't live in Siberia...every store I use sells both incandescents and CFL's so it appears there is a choice.
And no matter what you believe, most big-box retail stores will sell the products with the highest demands because they operate on high volume and lower profit margins.
, Costco is free to sell which ever merchandise they desire. Second, Costco, as with many businesses, is trying to be more conscious about the environment and energy consumption--a good thing--right? And third, Costco would not be providing shelf space for CFL's if they were not selling by the boatloads!!!!
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My point is Incs are dissapearing (slowly, but I notice it) more and more each day.
I just want people to know the trade off in using these lights.
LEDs are getting cheaper (about $30-40) and they'll get cheaper the more we use them.