How CFLs Got Their Bad Rap

Audio Report on Jan 24, 2011 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
Topics: Environment, Radio

This month begins America's long goodbye to the incandescent light bulb. The most common replacement bulbs, CFLs, are just as bright and warm-colored as the old incandescents. So why do so many people complain about them?

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• be recycled at designated collection sites. This EPA web page describes what to do if a CFL breaks. Here’s a 2009 study on the “negligible” health risks of being exposed to mercury from a CFL. ">What to Do With a Burned-out CFL Bulb
• How CFLs Got Their Bad Rap