Environment vs human impact

[mousme]

So it turns out that the mercury in those new-fangled lightbulbs is causing major health problems for the workers producing them.

I already knew that there were disposal issues with the bulbs because of the mercury content, but now there's an extra ethical dimension to it. I'm not sure which outweighs the other, or if I can even think of it in those terms.

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The Next Big Thing (tm) will be LED bulbs. They're crazy-expensive at the moment but volume will bring the price down in a year or two. They're supposedly much more efficient even than CFL, and last much longer. I'm curious if they have any environmental problems with manufacture or disposal.