"Acute Crisis" of Dumped CFLs: Swedish Environment Minister

 
Old CFLs are not being collected for recycling?
Hardly surprising - and nothing new, you might say.

But even government politicians are waking up to the fact!

In a series of articles over the past week,
the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has uncovered the large scale ongoing dumping of fluorescent bulbs (CFLs), and the dangers of released mercury that goes with it.

One article reports on the "acute crisis" commenting by the environment minister Lena Ek, another article on how Mina Gillberg, former advisor to EU environment commmisioner Margot Wallström at the time of the EU launching a CFL switchover policy, is now regretting the consequences of the decision.


A good more detailed review by Kevan at SaveTheBulb.org

Also covering this news, in English:
Greenwashing Lamps, including linked past statistics


Question:
If environmentally conscious, environmentally lauded Sweden is having "a crisis",
a country with dutiful citizens who normally with great diligence recycle all kinds of products in well organized community and government programs (I have lived there)
-- then what is happening in more populous less organized countries?

Don't worry, Superman to the rescue :-)




Roll on, universal light bulb regulation...