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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think this is sometimes a little exaggerated. There is a very small amount of mercury in a fluorescent light.
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I don't have a dog in this fight as I've been using CFLs almost exclusively for years and I don't live in the EU, BUT!
Which is worse, the "
very small amount of mercury" or the "
very small" carbon footprint of incandescent bulbs?
I don't have a reference for any studies done on the subject, if indeed there are any. Such anti green agenda studies are hugely non PC, and go largely unfunded thus undone.
I use CFLs because they are an economic no brainer, but I do not delude myself that I might be doing the environment a favor.