[Announce] lights

[Sheree]

So how to recycle long fluorescents (tubes) ...  possibility: http://www.lamprecycle.org/
and
http://earth911.org/search-recycle?what=fluorescent+light+tubes&where=12210&max_distance=25&goRecycle=%3CSPAN+class%3Dreplace+tabIndex%3D-1%3EGo%3C%2FSPAN%3E

craig's list has someone who will take light bulbs, the round type, to keep them from a landfill, but not our tubular types.

interesting what Andy had written:

 maybe 4 milligrams (of mercury) at the most in modern long florescent
bulbs. 

Actually, the low levels of mercury in modern bulbs are their leading
cause of failure these days -- the mercury over time absorbs into the
phosphorous, glass, and other parts of the bulb, meaning that bulbs
won't start anymore. New CFLs and long florescent bulbs simply do not
last as long as the ones from the 1960s -- many of which still work.
Then again, rapid start is both more energy efficient and easier on
bulbs then the old warm start of the 1960s -- for those switched on and
off regularly.
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