Quote - You know, I was not very aware of the toxicity issue. Mercury vapor!?! Are you kidding me?

And now I raised the question to my wife, and find that despite her being an educated woman, she THROWS THEM IN THE TRASH.

OMG!

This is the biggest cluster f---ing big-government blunder I've seen in years. I know human nature even though I try not to. Millions of people will be throwing these things in the trash. Our town dump will become a toxic waste super-fund site in just a few years. This is outrageous. Seriously.

Totally agree with you.

I tried out one in my office, where my birds also are.....the lamp caught caught on my foot one night while was was cleaning and BAM hit the floor and there was all that beautiful glass all over my carpet....I knew that it had some mercury in it, but good Lord above, I had no idea that I was going to have to do a whole freakin' EPA cleanup!  It was ridiculous.  Try doing that with seven birds in a cage...talk about creating stress jeez o man!

Here's the thing, after that I told my hubs no more of those were to come into this house.  To me, when you go to purchase those things, they should also have up front and center what the supposedly cleanup procedure is.  As far as I'm concerned the government and the manufacturers are totally misleading the public on these stupid things.

I'll be stockpiling, I guess after that unless LED's are out, I'll be burning candles.