In the interest of protecting our environment the
production of inefficient standard incandescent light bulbs has been banned as
of Wednesday. You now have a few choices: A) Run to the store right now and
stock up on a lifetime supply of standard incandescent bulbs before they’re all
gone. B) Get used to dropping $25 or more every time a bulb dies in your home and
you have to replace it with an LED. Or C) Go with compact fluorescent light bulbs
– those little curly things – that don’t cost much more than you’ve been paying.
The problem with CFLs is they contain mercury. When a CFL bulb dies, dropping
it in the trash is a really BAD idea. We’ve been phasing out incandescents for
seven years now, but most communities still don’t have any way of disposing of
the alternatives. Instead we’ve been told to STORE dead bulbs forever, or until a
better solution appears. Which ever comes first.
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