A ground-breaking campaign is launched today by the plastics industry to challenge itself, government and consumers to step up recycling and to stop sending plastic to landfill. The Plastics 2020 Challenge, backed by MPs from across the political...
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), and with other energy-efficient lighting such as linear fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps contain a very small amount of mercury, an element essential to achieving energy savings. While these...
6 oz. tuna fish sandwich - 48 micrograms typical CFL breakage - .07 micrograms - total harmless!
By Robert Clear, Francis Rubinstein and Jack Howells www.ies.org
The potential perils have been played up in the press, but if simple common sense...