The Earth Day Special: Cleaning up broken CFL

I have now replaced almost all incandescent lights with CFLs. Did you know there are yellow CFLs too, a bit more expensive but if like me you like the soft yellow lights, they are great. Hopefully LEDs will become cheaper soon when I'll move to LED lights.
What many of us don't realize is the CFLs contain mercury and such rather dangerous elements (do you know that mercury is dangerous for health? ). India rather helpfully doesnt even have such information publicized on the CFL packs and our recycling efforts are joke. While ultimately our toxic trash might still end up in some landfill untreated because there are no recycling centers at least we can ensure that we do not poison our living spaces. So here are some tips on how to handle a CFL breakage.
Now that you know how to handle CFL waste, go ahead and replace incandescent with CFL. And don't worry while more CFL means more mercury around, it is still less than the mercury our coal fired power plants put into air to power the incandescent lights.