Just to let you know. Those wonderful new bulbs they are hawking....have mercury in them. Remember all the mercury in fish controversies?

To date I know of no site where you can safely dispose of them.

I also read that as they burn out they give off fumes which has the mercury in it.

Not to mention what happens when and if you break one?

The mercury in one bulb is not huge, but when we are all using them (if we do) then we have a mercury problem.

I know someone out there might feel they have a good response. I'm just as 'in the dark' as anyone else is. So feel free to inform.

just get irked that we are presented with these energy solutions and sometimes we wonder whether saving energy off sets the risk of mercury poisoning.

Tootsie