Mercury in energy efficient bulbs? Someone told me that they heard someone broke one of those energy efficient bulbs and had to spend $2000 to get the mercury cleaned up. Is this legitimate?

Basically a professional environmental cleanup company told her it would cost them $2000 to clean it up, but she could easily do it herself for free.

http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php...

The amount of mercury in a CFL is the size of the tip of a ball point pen. The US EPA has instructions on how to clean up a broken CFL yourself (for free) here:

http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/#flour... 0% 0 Votes

It%26#039;s a lie, The Green tip bulbs have a lower content of lead, and mercury. The U.S. Federal limit for disposal is %26lt; .2 mg/liter. These bulbs typically have about .11 to .16 mg/liter.
There would be no fines, or extravegent clean up costs. 0% 0 Votes

there IS mercury in energy effeciant lightbulbs im not suprised that he broke it and it probly leaked on him but unless he%26#039;s a total idiot and left it on his skin for mare than 5min and didnt wash it off he should of been fine :\ 0% 0 Votes

It shouldn%26#039;t cost $2,000. I don%26#039;t know where they broke the bulb, but it%26#039;s pretty easy to clean up a broken CFL.

Did they say where they broke the bulb? Did they have some company come over and %26quot;professionally%26quot; clean up the place? 0% 0 Votes

That%26#039;s crazy. The long fluorescent tubes we%26#039;ve used for ages are no different and you don%26#039;t hear that about them, do you? The cfl%26#039;s are just like them, only much smaller. 0% 0 Votes