If You Smash A Low-Energy Bulb, Grab A Plastic Bag
GOT your new low-energy light bulbs? Can’t see a thing? Walk into a lamp and knock it over? Smash! What to do?
Says the BBC: “Official advice from the Department of the Environment states that if a low-energy bulb is smashed, the room needs to be vacated for at least 15 minutes.
“A vacuum cleaner should not be used to clear up the debris, and care should be taken not to inhale the dust.
“Instead, rubber gloves should be used, and the broken bulb put into a sealed plastic bag - which should be taken to the local council for disposal.”
A plastic bag to save the planet?
Posted: 5th, January 2008 | In: Global Warming Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 6th, 2008 at 8:34 am
But they have never warned properly about the dangers of cutting youself on a broken Flourescent tube. They are coated with something like beryllium, which causes the cut to heal down each side, leaving a healed valley shape in your flesh, rather than allowing the sides of the cut to stick together as normal.
Doctors know this and have to cut out the whole piece of flesh to let it start again. Where is the health warning ?
January 6th, 2008 at 8:31 am
One step forward, two steps back..
January 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I must admit. When I first heard about this breaking news I was horrified since most of our bulbs at home are enrgy saving ones.