Quick Stats:
- How many lights?: according to recent records in Europe there are 300,000,000 halogen downlighters in use each consuming roughly 40 watts and each on for approximately 3,000 hours per year. That’s 36,000,000,000 kWh of electricity per year on downlighters alone
- How much energy do we use?: most estimates agree that 20% of the western world’s energy bill is spent on lighting. it's uo to 40% in the leisure industry.
- How much Carbon could we save?: if all halogen downlighters were replaced with LEDs, Europe would save 3,500,000 tonnes of Carbon per year
- How much Mercury could we save?: If all CFLs in Europe were LED equivalents nearly 6 tonnes of Mercury would disappear out of the system
- What’s the deal with Mercury?: The addition of 1 gramme of mercury into a 2 acre lake makes the entire lake’s fish unsafe for human consumption. Mercury can prove harmful to developing children; according to the National Academy of Sciences, over 60,000 children are born each year at risk from adverse neurodevelopmental effects following exposure in utero to mercury. Fluorescents contain approximately 20mg of mercury per lamp.
- In USA, the Environmental Protection Agency states that 800,000,000 fluorescent lamps are disposed of annually. Potentially this could damage 200,000,000 acres of water.
- Each haloen downlighter costs you approximately £25 p.a. to own and run. The equivalent LED downlighter costs around £3
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