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Originally Posted by JasonG
I'm a bit worried about the mercury in CFLs. It's mandatory that flourescent lamps get properly disposed of by companies. I wonder what impact hundreds of CFLs in landfills will do to our water supply?
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From what I've read, the amount of mercury in a CFL is still less over all then the amount that would end up in our air, then in our ground water if a incandescent bulb was used powered by a coal power plant, I can't remember the number it but it was a big reduction even if every CFL went in to the land fill and leaked in to our ground water and for that to happen the land fill water collection system would have to fail as well.