2013-03-12, 11:20 PM
Bomber Wrote:The only reason the mercury isn't dangerous is because it's trapped in that bulb. If the bulb breaks your room basically becomes uninhabitable.
except you're wrong?
the mercury content in your average CFL bulb is equivalent to essentially a serving of fish.
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/env...perts.html
You know fish has mercury in it, right?
Regardless, the cleanup steps for a broken bulb posted there are only a problem when you're dealing with, say, a broken box of those bulbs. the amount of mercury exposure you'd get from cleaning up a smashed CFL is minimal. As someone who has cleaned up many of those, I can honestly say I've personally experienced no negative health effects.