“Extensive cleanup is required by the Environmental Protection Agency for simply breaking a bulb. When a bulb, which contains mercury, is broken, according to the EPA, the room must be evacuated for 15 minutes and aired out with windows, but not before all glass is removed, placed in a sealed glass jar and disposed of outside. Any remaining glass must be picked up with tape. In addition, central heating or air conditioning units must be turned off.
Wait… Environmental Protection Agency must be called for a broken bulb?”
The EPA does not have a mandate to regulate private property owners. Sweep it up and throw it in the trash. Nuff done, nuff said.
A fellow I was acquainted with 15 years ago killed himself after constant legal battering by the EPA for having old tires on his farm. His family had used them to shore up land since before the war. I guess farms aren't private property.
I don't know if are empowered legally or not. However, they certainly DO regulate what private property owners can do and what products they can purchase! Right off the top of my head I can think of Diazinon and Creosote that are no longer available to homeowners. I also think you've forgotten about wetlands, “endangered” species, etc regulation!
I broke on the other day trying to fit it in a lamp that it really didn’t want to fit in.
Picked it up and threw it in the trash.
The lights above our patio are the long tube fluorescents. For no reason 2 of them just fell out on the cement about a month ago. Swept them up and threw them in the trash.
I also throw away batteries which is illegal in Ca. I burn my pellet stove on ‘no burn days’.
I ignore every single one of their stupid laws that I can.