10-08-2006, 01:34 PM
[quote voodoopenguin]Sorry to be the negative one here but you say you did the 20 mile trip 'just to go to a recycling site that took my Mercury thermostat for proper disposal'. Well done for thinking about the proper disposal but what vehicle did you use and what fuel consumption does it do? Would it have been better to wait until you were going that way for more than that single reason?
If you went by bicycle or even walked then please accept my complete and utter apology.
Point well taken penguin, but I had to choose between keeping that mercury around (I have a small kid and I was worried) or wasting a gallon of gasoline... as far as I know mercury is more dangerous than gasoline. OK, at some point there is a trade off, i.e. you can't justify burning a large amount of gasoline for a tiny amount of Mercury, I agree, but in this case I spend less than 1 gallon of gas.
Sure I would have biked if I could, but weather didn't allow it, it was raining.
If you went by bicycle or even walked then please accept my complete and utter apology.
Point well taken penguin, but I had to choose between keeping that mercury around (I have a small kid and I was worried) or wasting a gallon of gasoline... as far as I know mercury is more dangerous than gasoline. OK, at some point there is a trade off, i.e. you can't justify burning a large amount of gasoline for a tiny amount of Mercury, I agree, but in this case I spend less than 1 gallon of gas.
Sure I would have biked if I could, but weather didn't allow it, it was raining.