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Wolmar for MP
In message , at 08:15:31 on
Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Optimist remarked: banning barometers containing mercury but not lightbulbs, An easy target at first sight but a progressing matter. Incandescent lamps involve the greatest production of mercury at the stage of electricity production. CFLs have some mercury in them but not in the form of "raw" mercury. CFLs will themselves be overtaken where suitable by the use of LED lighting and other developments. Mercury released into environment from disposal of dead CFLs all the time whereas mercury barometers go on for donkeys' years. You aren't comparing like with like. The mercury in lightbulbs is a danger to the environment, that in a barometer is a danger to people in the same room when it breaks, and for years afterwards as the mercury lodged in cracks evaporates. limits on power usage of vacuum cleaners and kettles. Consumers will be better off without many of them. You think e.g. the USA presented as a glorious example by Brexiteers always has slacker requirements ? What are you on about? Who is talking about USA? UK consumers should have choice. Why should we only be able to buy feeble vacuum cleaners and slow kettles? The reduce our C02 footprint. -- Roland Perry |
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