{"id":299,"date":"2007-10-25T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/10\/25\/cfls-less-mercury-too\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:50:09","slug":"cfls-less-mercury-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=299","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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}