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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by tuatoru on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:27AM (#24715792)
There's more mercury released into the environment from incandescent bulbs than CFLs -- or there was, when incandescents were still common and so were coal-fired power plants, and the Obama-era regulation of mercury emissions from power plants hadn't come into force.

Now, of course, we have LEDs in place of CFLs, and coal burning power generation is on the way out, so it's all moot.

Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by srtjstjsj on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:33AM (#24718525)
Is that comparison true on a socket for socket basis? Low adoption of CFL shouldn't excuse any poor pollution characteristics.