Breaking a compact fluorescent light bulb could cost you $2,000

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Don't try this at home, kids . . .

 

Energy: Breaking a compact fluorescent light bulb could cost you $2,000

in toxic mercury cleanup

 

While large-scale marketing efforts tout cost savings of compact

fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), few are explaining the real cost -- to

the environment and to individuals -- of broken or discarded CFLs. One

consumer has learned that accidentally breaking...

 

http://www.newstarget.com/021916.html

 

[P.S. Snopes raises questions on SOME of this:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp -- Draw your own

conclusions]