How does one clean up the Mercury when one break a Compact Floresent Bulb?
Answer:
If you should break a CFL, please clean up with care following these steps;
1. Do not allow children or pregnant women to enter the affected area
2. Open windows and allow air to circulate to the affected area
3. First sweep up all of the glass fragments and phosphor powder (do not vacuum)
4. Then place in a plastic bag
5. Wipe the area with a damp paper towel to pick up stray shards of glass or fine particles
6. Place the used towel in the plastic bag as well
7. For proper disposal of a broken CFL bulb, contact your local authority for a community household hazardous waste collection
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you just have to wipe it off the floor with a wet cloth and detergent and wash your hands thoroughly.theres no cause for a great concern because flourescent bulbs dont contain much mercury.
call Haz-Mat. pay a million for clean up. or don't worry, there isn't a concern, it isn't mercury in those bulbs.
Call Clean Harbors or go to their web site and get the facts.
Mercury vapors are poisonous but there isn't much in a bulb.
They are a universal waste.
If you actually see murcury rolling around like a marble stay out of it because its very hard to get up and spreads very easy.
Ther are mercury absorb kits
Is there enough to even see? If so, collect it and send it to me so I can further my antigravity experiments. It's an important element in those experiments.
According to the site I cited below, CFL's contain an average of 5 milligrams of mercury. That is about the amount it would take to cover the tip of a ball point pen.
The old style thermometers that I used as a kid contained 50 milligrams of mercury, much more dangerous and there are still lots of us alive.
I actually broke a mercury thermometer and cleaned it up myself when I was 10. I didn't get sick or grow a third eye, so I think the mercury in a CFL isn't anything to get worked up about.
The glass from a broken CFL poses more of a threat than does the tiny bit of mercury.
Yes I believe so !
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