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Compact fluorescent light bulbs contaminate the environment with 30,000 pounds of mercury each year Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mercury is an essential element in millions of fluorescent lamps throughout the world, and as those lamps are thrown into landfill, the mercury can escape and contribute to air and water pollution. (It can easily leach into groundwater supplies.) According to www.lightbulbrecycling.com, each year an estimated 600 million fluorescent lamps are disposed of in U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste. Astonishingly, that's almost half the amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants each year.

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Another Samsung technology breakthrough is use of U-shaped cold-cathode fluorescent lamps to lower their mercury content. Samsung Electronics began to switch over from straight tubes to U-shaped tubes as the backlight in its LCD module for 2 3-inch televisions in January 2004. Use of the new backlight was expanded to include the new 17-, 19-, 20-, and 26-inch LCD TV modules. The brightness of LCD modules has not been affected by the change, but the amount of mercury in the lamps has been halved.

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Gas stoves and heaters emit nitrogen dioxide, ageing refrigeration still contains chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), radiation comes from television screens, microwave ovens, fluorescent lamps and computers. Insulating materials, paints, carpets, glues, tobacco smoke, ovens, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning, all emit fumes, irritants or radiation, and the list goes on. In the last thirty years we have become surrounded by electromagnetic fields, not just from household appliances but also from living near high-tension powerlines.

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Most consumers do not properly recycle fluorescent lamps. While the widespread consumption of fluorescent lights may save our nation from wasting electricity on incandescent lights, it may also lead to a mercury contamination catastrophe. Never before in the history of our world has so much mercury been so widely distributed across the environment. The long-term effects of this contamination are currently unknown, but they can only be negative. The only unknown concerns the degree of harm that will emerge.

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More than seventy products fall under the purview of the directive, including computers, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, toasters, medical devices, radiotherapy equipment, fluorescent lamps, television sets, video games, cordless telephones, candy vending machines, and "automatic dispensers for hot or cold bottles or cans.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs contaminate the environment with 30,000 pounds of mercury each year Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste. Astonishingly, that's almost half the amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants each year. It only takes 4mg of mercury to contaminate up to 7,000 gallons of freshwater, meaning that the 30,000 pounds of mercury thrown away in compact fluorescent light bulbs each year is enough to pollute nearly every lake, pond, river and stream in North America (not to mention the oceans).

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Studies by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirm that ultraviolet radiation from fluorescent lamps can increase the risk of nonmalignant skin cancer in certain people. Other researchers have tentatively linked malignant melanoma, a rare and dangerous form of skin cancer, to fluorescent lights. The flicker of fluorescent lamps is another problem.

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By adjusting the coating, fluorescent lamps can be produced to give light with wavelengths that are closer to natural sunlight than can be achieved with the incandescent bulb. The lamps also operate on less electric power. EARTH SCIENCE MATHEMATICS MEDICINE PHYSICS TECHNOLOGY The Seismological Society of Japan is founded John Milne invents the modern seismograph for measuring earthquake waves William Hallowes Miller, English mineralogist, d Cambridge, May 20 A.

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Cool-white fluorescent lamps, found in offices, factories, and schools, emphasize the yellow-green portion. Neither is a good source of ultraviolet or infrared wavelengths found in natural daylight. Artificial light is quite literally not the same as natural light. We can even see the difference. Ever notice that the blue sweater you bought in a store is a different shade outdoors? That difference is the result of partial-spectrum artificial lighting influencing your visual clarity. Yet artificial lighting influences more than vision.

The flicker of fluorescent lamps is another problem. Though barely noticeable to the human eye, this flicker (at 60 times a second) is still perceived subconsciously and is suspected of sometimes contributing to irritation and headaches, eye strain and fatigue, and may even be a factor in triggering seizures in epileptics. ¦ Newer lights, like the high-pressure sodium-vapor type (which are great energy savers but are spectrally limited), can cause eyestrain, headaches, nausea, and irritability.

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Our technology also tells us that fluorescent lamps do it Figure 15. To demonstrate how our brains construct what we perceive as reality, hold the illustration at eye level, close your left eye, and stare at the circle in the middle of the grid with your right eye. Slowly move the book back and forth along the line of your vision until the star vanishes (about 10 to 15 inches). The star disappears because it is falling on your blind spot. Now close your right eye and stare at the star. Move the book back and forth until the circle in the middle of the grid vanishes.

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