What Looters Do - Close the plant down !
Posted by SolitudeIsBliss 10 years, 11 months ago to Politics
So as the looters were not satisfied by what the Employer was offering they made sure All were left without a job. 6 extra Union votes assured that the last GE lamp plant in the area closed.
SOURCE URL: http://wkbn.com/2014/01/24/lamp-plant-goes-dark/
BTW check out: "The potential perils have been played up in the press, but if simple common sense is used when disposing of a broken compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), the resulting exposure to mercury is equivalent to a mere nibble of tuna"
That's from: http://www.1000bulbs.com/pages/mercury.h...
Alternative: Find spouse that makes new age art sculpture. Sell to East or West Coast. Buy LED's.
I've even had interactive video training on the subject.
Short breakdown: unless you take them to a government-approved facility for disposal, you risk polluting the landfill with mercury!
Oh, and LED bulbs aren't much safer on the environment, as the circuit boards contain other nasty trace elements such as cadmium.
Link from the EPA
Why not? Because it costs the store some hundreds of dollars PER VISIT for an EPA toxic disposal crew to come out for every thirty pounds or so of CFLs to be recycled!
Put 'em in a Zip-Loc, put that Zip-Loc into another one and then toss it in your trash.
Stupidity squared...
I just had to gawk when I saw the EPA's official cleanup procedures for dealing with broken Compact Flourescent bulbs: http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-...
Seriously?!?! So if one breaks, I literally have to call in a HAZMAT squad? And the EPA is pushing these things in order to "save the planet"?!?!?!
Gotta love the complete nonsense coming from liberals.
Here is a manufacturer that makes, and ships, all the banned bulbs legal
http://www.newcandescent.com/
I used to replace the ones in my garage ceiling every 6 months, but the 'rough service' ones I last installed are still burning bright after over three years....
What about the folks clipping coupons from GE stock? What did they do to "earn" anything? Ohhhhhhhh, money to invest is more important than investing one's own labors? Is that it?
The UN and Obama want CFLs. No, they did not study them well, Pelosi ramrodded the legislation through. A report from the Federation of German Engineers warns of an electrical smog around the CFLs when on, and advises keeping the heard at a distance from the lights. Among gases being put out by the lit bulbs, discounting the obvious mercury, are phenol, naphthalene and styrene.
In Britain, they are taken to the Ministry of Light Bulbs, or some such name. Once everyone here is stuck with them, can you imagine it will be free to dispose of something that pollutes? Look for the cost to be passed on, and likely not cheap, to get rid of the things.
Isn't that like an investor cashing out? Don't you consider one's own labor to be an investment?