Now all we have ro do is buy a hazmat suit when the bulbs break find a place that they can be safely discard. And buy them more times than they are worth when they don'r work.
Yes, we've bought two or three of the CFL bulbs that didn't last a week due to some malfunction.
And the thing is, when the bulbs burn out it is one small bulb. I would beat an expensive steak dinner that most people don't go to the trouble of repackaging and labeling that bulb and going to the trouble to get it to a hazmat receiving center, if they even know where one is. Nope, everybody I've talked to says they pitch it in the trash. It's just one small bulb. So with 300 million citizens using those things, there will be millions and millions, all containing mercury, going into the landfills.