A few months ago I wrote a post called “The FYI on CFL Recycling.” This post offered a few basic ideas on where and how to recycle compact fluorescent light bulbs, or CFLs. You want to recycle them because they contain trace amounts of mercury, which is considered to be hazardous waste. And hazardous waste [...]
One of the green-and-frugal changes that I’m most proud of is how we’ve managed to cut our PECO bill since moving into our new house. Granted, in our old house, PECO provided us with both gas and electric–and here it provides electric only since we have oil heat (blech!)–but I clearly remember how electric consumed [...]
Recently, my daughter did a science report on mercury (lower case, not the planet), the element whose periodic table abbreviation is Hg. As far as I knew mercury was just that silver liquid that appears in old-fashioned thermometers, but thanks to her report I learned that mercury also shows up in certain kinds of light [...]
We spent this afternoon stringing lights outside of our home to give it a festive look. While outside I replaced all of the burned-out bulbs in our exterior lights. These were some of the last to still have incandescent bulbs in them. Luckily, we’d recently stocked up on multi-packs of General Electric “Energy Smart” compact [...]
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