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Article: Heavy metal thunder; Disposing of mercury in fluorescent bulbs poses sticky environmental problem.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2008
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Byline: Karen Nugent
While environmental groups, along with the government and some large businesses, continue to successfully push consumers to switch to energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs, those bulbs pose a dilemma when it comes to disposal because they contain small amounts of mercury.
In May, a section of a 2006 state law will take effect banning the residential disposal of mercury-containing products, including compact fluorescent bulbs, in regular solid waste, according to Edmund J. Coletta, spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection. Commercial users already fall under the state's Mercury Management Act passed two ...