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To: Taro who wrote (331689)	4/4/2007 11:21:03 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572657

"Is that acceptable?" Just illustrating how far off base Shorty was. And that is an upper bound, I doubt if a billion bulbs have been sold, much less discarded, and most bulbs have less mercury than that. If the bulbs are recycled, and only about 10% are, then the release is reasonably close to zero. Is it acceptable? It is lower than the mercury released by a coal-fueled power plant supplying electricity for the equivalent incandescent bulb over the estimated lifespan of the CF bulb. According to the EPA, anthropogenic mercury releases are somewhere between 3k tons/year and 5k tons/year. So the CF bulbs don't represent much of a threat.