UPDATE: Apparently someone has "said in ain't so". My update here.
Someone please tell me that this is not accurate. Woman buys compact fluorescent light bulb for $4, breaks it while installing it (we've all done that) and spends $2k cleaning up the mess. The article goes on further to do math:
As each CFL contains five milligrams of mercury, at the Maine "safety" standard of 300 nanograms per cubic meter, it would take 16,667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL. While CFL vendors and environmentalists tout the energy cost savings of CFLs, they conveniently omit the personal and societal costs of CFL disposal.
Are CFL's a really bad idea? I know Mr. Gore reads this blog, so please shoot me a note across your internet (when you get a moment) about what we are supposed to do with this paradoxical environmental conundrum.
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