>>>>I just worry about the mercury in flourescent lights.
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>>>Another case of way way way over-hyping something!
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>>I worry more about polluting landfills, since the general public doesn't know that the bulbs contain mercury and just throws them in the garbage.
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>Imagine what our landfills have in them up to about 15-20 years ago!
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>Back then everything just got tossed.

I hear ya. Even now the average person tosses batteries.