{"id":694,"date":"2007-10-25T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/cfls-less-mercury-too\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:51:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:51:01","slug":"cfls-less-mercury-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/cfls-less-mercury-too\/","title":{"rendered":"CFLs: Less Mercury too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve been thinking about exchanging those hot incandescent lightbulbs for lower wattage compact fluorescent lamps but there&#8217;s one nagging thought you worry about: Mercury. Yes, it&#8217;s true that there is between 4-6mg of mercury per cfl. You worry, what happens if the lamp breaks? How do I recycle them post usage? Well, the good folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energytrust.org\/residential\/es\/products\/cfl_mercury.html\">Energy Trust published an informative article about these issues recently<\/a>. The chart below is from their article, showing that even with the mercury in the bulb, over a 5 year burn, the CFL still results in less mercury than an incandescent bulb.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.energytrust.org\/residential\/es\/products\/assets\/cfl_incandescent_graph.gif\" alt=\"mercury impact of incandescent lightbulbs vs. compact fluorescent lamps.\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve been thinking about exchanging those hot incandescent lightbulbs for lower wattage compact fluorescent lamps but there&#8217;s one nagging thought you worry about: Mercury. Yes, it&#8217;s true that there is between 4-6mg of mercury per cfl. You worry, what happens if the lamp breaks? How do I recycle them post usage? Well, the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}