The energy-saving lamp broke: what is it?
Why does mercury in fluorescent lamps look like mercury in thermometers? Why is the energy-saving light bulb broken and what to do with it? What can replace compact fluorescent lamps?
How unsafe?
Those energy-saving lamps, like mass vicorous lamps, are used by us, - compact fluorescent lamps (also known as CFLs). The stench is distinguished by the shape, the socle and the tightness of the base, and all the mercury in your warehouse. In the article about thermometry, we have already, which is not safe for a person: її otruynі bet must be found in the legend and lead to the correction of the body. Among the symptoms are head pain, tedium, dryness and metal licking in the mouth, pain in the abdomen, diarrhea. Ale needs to be aware that the mercury in the thermometer is the light bulb. As if from a broken thermometer it hangs in glittering bags, then in the middle of the lamps you don’t reveal the bulbs, because the mercury in them is hidden from the bet, which are even small, close to 5 mg (for a thermometer, it’s 2-3 grams). That shkodi like a light bulb that broke, in the thought of fakhіvtsіv, is not rich.
In addition, not all that energy-saving lamp, which is mercury. Ecologist-consultant Vadim Rukavitsin expresses respect that such lamps are of various types, and part of them do not avenge mercury in principle, like, for example, light-emitting diode lamps: . , which should be kept in a flask, even in small quantities. As one small light bulb broke, there were more problems, more for everything, not a wink, but a low entry, it’s necessary to live in order to secure yourself 100%.”
Yak tidy up?
ЗМІ aggravate the situation around the problem of energy-saving lamps. For example, the journalists of NTV lakaat peeping that a broken lamp threatens important disorders “up to the liver damage, nirok and nervous system of a person”, as well as the threat of Minamata’s illness, which “is characterized by impaired motor skills, weakness in the arms and legs, impaired hearing , and in important cases - paralysis and right up to death.
Not really. Nothing like a broken light bulb does not threaten. In order to develop the myths that have been formed, the Green Peace of Russia should publish a special booklet. In this new case, ecologists have found a special place in the procedure for choosing a broken lamp. "Just as the lamp has broken, it's enough to pick up neat tricks and resolutely air the room," recommends "Greenpeace".
Photo: Anton Fomkin
For anxious people, for whom the algorithm is supposed to be insufficiently reconciled, it is possible to generate more manipulations, similar to picking up a broken thermometer, but respectfully, that the psychological corrosiveness is much larger, less practical. Have a vipadka, step on your feet:
- open a window and air the room;
- close all doors in the courtroom, clean up the children;
- put on gum gloves, shoe covers and gauze bandage;
- to choose the tricks of a lamp, a vicorist sticky line, a sponge for a sponge or a ganchirka;
- when picking up materials and speeches, they used up ulamki, place a plastic bag with a plastic bag and give it to a specialist for processing.
If a broken lamp is not unsafe, why, for the disposal of lamps that have burnt out, is vicoristed okremium, and not a burning container?
It's true, it's impossible to wikidate the light bulbs all at once. Ale tse zovsim does not mean that the stench is mortally unsafe for a person. The reason is different: in a burning container, it is also impossible to find, say, batteries, accumulators, and see chemical cleaners. Tobto vymogi to special utilization of lamps due to the need for proper processing and, to save the environment.
Photo: Wilson Hui
What can replace CFL?
Technologies do not stand on the spot, and already at the same time, energy-saving light ones, you can buy energy-saving lamps that do not take revenge on unsafe metal at the warehouse. “Not all energy-saving lamps have mercury vapor in their design,” Illya Katorgin, EcoStandard group’s environmentalist, explains, “deacons growers make lamps anyway. At the flask itself, instead of mercury, metal calcium amalgam is introduced. The alloy is resurrected by the fact that in the new mercury it is rebuked at the connected steel. The advantage of stosuvannya tsієї speech in that, at room temperature, it’s not allowed to boil, that turns out the possibility of її being consumed in a show, like we are dihaєmo.
About those that the light bulb was broken due to a special technology, you can find out by the sign on the package "Do not avenge mercury" or "Amalgam technology".
And what about the heating lamps?
In 2011, a roci order made a fence for the sale of light bulbs rozzharyuvannya 100 watts and more. At some point, Vlada wanted to switch to completely fencing such lamps until 2014, but then she changed her mind. No, it’s not connected with them, that the bulbs of Illich allowed us to see the centenary of the Russian revolution, for other reasons. First, the price of energy-saving lamps is high for rich Russians. In another way, for three years in the country, there has not been a mass organization of recycling points. Thirdly, the experts in the power industry's halls started talking about those transformers simply do not vibrate such a large number of energy-saving lamps. Since then, while ecologists continue advocating for saving electricity in the world, in Russia, the light bulb of Illicha, it seems, has its own mission - to shine forever, shine everywhere, until the days of the rest of the day.
Maria Solovyova
