Home Depot In Favor of Going Green!

OK, so that's not really the headline.  However, according to a New York Times article (http://tinyurl.com/6cb5ga) Home Depot is making it easier to use, and get rid of, Compact Flourescent Light (CFL) bulbs.

As most of the US population knows by now, CFLs (which use a lot less electricity and last longer) contain mercury which is not exactly a good thing to be wontonly tossing into the down dump.  In fact, there have been a lot of local news stories about this topic since about 1 month after CFLs became widely available.

Now, as the atricle linked above mentions, Home Depot is encouraging folks to bring their dead, but not broken, CFLs to their stores' Returns Desk.  Although that line is usually fairly long, I'd be willing to bet that they'll allow folks just dropping of CFLs to jump the line a bit.

Either way, it's excellent news for the environment - way to go Home Depot!