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People are buying, and PG&E is giving away, those energy efficient fluorescent light bulbs by the thousands, perhaps millions. However, no one seems to be informing people that these bulbs have mercury in them and must be disposed of in hazardous waste sites, not in the regular garbage and landfills. I am concerned that when they do finally burn out, thousands, even millions, of these bulbs will end up in our landfills, spilling their mercury, because people probably won’t know NOT to put them in the regular garbage disposal. When I bought a box of these bulbs, I finally found the information about the mercury in tiny print on the underside of the box. If I hadn’t know to look for it, I would most likely never have seen it. What can you do to make this information known to people in SF and help avoid this possible contamination of our landfills with mercury?
Marita Kubersky
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