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How great it is that we will be leaving the EU and I can start using incandescent bulbs again. Just like the smell of Napalm in the morning, I love the smell of the burning plastic insulation and the heat they waste.


So what do do with the swirly whirly, or elongated, energy saving bulbs.


(obviously I'm not replacing them with incandescent, but the most excellent LED bulbs which are great in terms of light and energy use).


I'll dump them (assume they have to be recycled somewhere) or put them for free on this forum unless anyone has any bright (ha ha) ideas.

Yes, I've still got several boxes of them (CFL-Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb) all got free from utility companies. Unfortunately they contain small amounts of mercury, so shouldn't be put in household recycling, but taken to a dump that comes within the "WEEE compliance scheme". You can search Southwark's list of such available sites in the area at https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling/recycling-centres/recycling-locator. It includes Devon Street.

If you accidentally break an energy saving light bulb, you have to evacuate that room immediately, open the window for at least half an hour, and wear protective gloves when picking up the pieces, dispose of in designated recycling centres.


Keep all animals and children away.

You've missed some of the points of my thread


(a) Incandescent light bulbs are not a thing we will ever return to. I was poking fun at some of the bizarre things that Brexiters campaigned on.

(b) The LED lights are the bees knees, and the price is coming down. Just bought my second pack from Screwfix and a set of GU10s to to replace the halogen spot lights

© the move to CFL was simply premature, a shame that LED lights were not market ready at that point.

(d) The Daily Mail is not a source of news. Obviously a source of opinion but not one that I will ever be guided on.

uncleglen Wrote:

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> There is light at the end of the tunnel

> (literally)

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394807/Li

> ght-bulbs-banned-EU-make-comeback-breakthrough-mea

> ns-use-energy.html


Well, hopefully but not yet; still at the experimental stage.


Also that article is great at demonstrating how people will happily ignore a very good law that is designed to help save money and the planet, just because they prefer a different kind of light!


Perfect example of the narrow minded thinking that dominates so many. But it's the Daily Mail, so it must be right...

uncleglen Wrote:

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> There is light at the end of the tunnel

> (literally)

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394807/Li

> ght-bulbs-banned-EU-make-comeback-breakthrough-mea

> ns-use-energy.html


How splendid, with a bit of luck we can continue walking backwards into the past, in a few years our houses can be lit by gaslights (good traditional British lights) and who knows, in a couple of decades we can all be huddled round tallow candles! The utter vacuity of the Brexit argument is notably illustrated by the fact that eighteen months after the vote all they can point to as a success is that our passports will be a different colour (which it turns out we could have had all along) and that a redundant form of lighting might be permitted. As one of their great champions is so fond of pointing out, you couldn't make it up.


By the way, uncle, you regularly make great play of the fact that you don't read the media and that you only follow Private Eye. Funny you should be able to quote from the Daily Mail then...

Energy saving bulbs have an average of 4mg of mercury (though some have none) inside; this equates to just 1% of the amount of mercury in a traditional thermometer you'd find in a medicine cabinet. It's really almost impossible to do yourself any damage by breaking one unless you decide to clean it up with your tongue.

rendelharris Wrote:

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> uncleglen Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > There is light at the end of the tunnel

> > (literally)

> >

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394807/Li

>

> >

> ght-bulbs-banned-EU-make-comeback-breakthrough-mea

>

> > ns-use-energy.html

>

> How splendid, with a bit of luck we can continue

> walking backwards into the past, in a few years

> our houses can be lit by gaslights (good

> traditional British lights) and who knows, in a

> couple of decades we can all be huddled round

> tallow candles! The utter vacuity of the Brexit

> argument is notably illustrated by the fact that

> eighteen months after the vote all they can point

> to as a success is that our passports will be a

> different colour (which it turns out we could have

> had all along) and that a redundant form of

> lighting might be permitted. As one of their

> great champions is so fond of pointing out, you

> couldn't make it up.

>

> By the way, uncle, you regularly make great play

> of the fact that you don't read the media and that

> you only follow Private Eye. Funny you should be

> able to quote from the Daily Mail then...


Well, since you use the EDF rh you have the internet. I assume you therefore know of 'Google' and then of course there are many news sources that come up when one 'Googles' a phrase- and then one picks a likely looking article from the Google results...

Since I cannot be bothered to 'apologise' for using the online DM I ALWAYS expect one of you usual suspects to have a pop....funny how, unlike your fave the Guardian, the DM does not have a begging box on its online page....

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