Earth Day website

[RecycleMichael]

Here is some good up-to-date Green info...

http://events.yahoo.com/earthday07/

[lsimmons]

Thanks for the info. It really feels like this year people are finally starting to see the value in doing things differently.

BTW, Home Depot is having an Earth Day give away of sorts. They will be giving away one million compact fluorescent light bulbs just for visiting the store. Here's a link if anyone is interested.

http://www6.homedepot.com/ecooptions/index.html?cm_mmc=hd_email-_-041907_FREE_SHIP_PATIO_T8.TXT-_-041907_Patio-_-earth+day

[sgrizzle]

Free stuff is always good.

[Cubs]

I used to like Earth Day when it was like "Pick up liter, plant a tree" ..... now its so full of global warming BS.

[NellieBly]

Too bad it's not a day we celebrate good spelling and grammar.

[RecycleMichael]

He is just on the metric system.

[AngieB]

So Home Depot was giving away the CFLs. A coworker was asking me if I knew about the mercury in them and how you're supposed to dispose of them and what do you do if you break one.

RecycleMichael -- Is it really enough mercury to worry about? Or is even a tiny amount cause for concern? I need to know! Care to enlighten me?

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[RecycleMichael]

It is only five milligrams per bulb, but it is very concerning to me that we are telling the citizens to bring any mercury in the home.

Only dispose of them at my twice-a-year collection event at the fairgrounds. If they break, clean up wearing a mask, gloves and pieces of cardboard. Put everything (including the mask and gloves)in a quart ziplock bag and store till my next event.

This our new website about mercury...it just went live today...

http://www.mercuryfreetulsa.com/

[AngieB]

Dang. It's always something. There's talk of banning incandescents, but the alternative has mercury in it.

What to do???

I'll check out your site more thoroughly later.

[Conan71]

There seems to be a yin and yang to about every environmental alternative.

Alt fuels require a lot of energy and emissions to make them.

They have taken mercury out of operating level safety controls on pressure vessels we work around.  The snap switches they've replaced them with are un-reliable.  If one fails a vessel can fail and either a) melt internally, or b) explode.