mercury compact fluorescent lamp News

CFLs have gained momentum with the latest green push and Wal-Mart's commitment to sell 100 million over the next year. Despite high front-end costs, compact fluorescents use 50-80% less energy and last up to 10 times longer than traditional incandescents. Additionally, CFLs reduce air and water pollution, give off high-quality light and can be used nearly everywhere. Despite the obvious ...

Jun. 14, 2007

By Air Cycle Corporation

Service offers safe and convenient way for communities to responsibly dispose of used CFLs as part of residential recycling programs. HOUSTON - Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), North America"s largest residential recycler, has launched a new program for communities to recycle used compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in a safe, environmentally responsible manner along with their residential ...

Jul. 7, 2010

By Waste Management Inc.

Lombard, IL (October 30, 2007) - Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia) is proud to announce it has reached an agreement with TCP, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), to promote recycling of mercury-containing lamps. CFLs are seven times more energy efficient than incandescent lamps. TCP will promote Veolia’s prepaid lamp recycling program, RECYCLEPAK® ...

Oct. 30, 2007

By Veolia North America, Industrial Business

Lombard, Ill. — July 24, 2007 — Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia ES) TechnicalSolutions has created a user-friendly way for consumers to safely recycle smallquantities of lighting wastes. The RECYCLEPAK® Consumer CFL Kit provides a safe,cost-effective and comprehensive recycling solution for households.“Following the success of our RECYCLEPAK® program for small to medium sizedbusinesses, ...

Jul. 25, 2007

By Veolia North America, Industrial Business

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today updated its guidance on how to properly clean up a broken compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). Included with the guidance is a new consumer brochure with CFL recycling and cleanup tips. EPA encourages Americans to use CFLs for residential lighting to save energy and prevent greenhouse gas emissions that lead to global climate change. CFLs contain a ...

Dec. 29, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

A landmark treaty to curb the use of mercury will open for signature on Wednesday, 9 October in Japan, marking a further watershed moment towards the global phase-out of the notorious heavy metal in many products and industries where mercury is used, released or emitted. The newest United Nations treaty, named the Minamata Convention after a Japanese city where serious health damage occurred as a ...

Oct. 7, 2013

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

A landmark treaty to curb the use of mercury will open for signature on Wednesday, 9 October in Japan, marking a further watershed moment towards the global phase-out of the notorious heavy metal in many products and industries where mercury is used, released or emitted. The newest United Nations treaty, named the Minamata Convention after a Japanese city where serious health damage occurred as a ...

Oct. 7, 2013

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

GreenPoma.com, an online retailer of premium environmentally friendly, energy-efficient lighting products, is pleased to announce that it will begin offering the LR6 Recessed Downlight from Cree, Inc. The downlight module, one of Cree's forward-looking LED lighting solutions, exceeds U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting standards for efficacy, light output, color quality and lifetime. ...

Jan. 13, 2010

By GreenPoma.com

Japan, a country which has come to epitomize mercury poisoning in modern times, today became one of the first countries to sign a historic new international convention to reduce emissions and releases of the toxic metal into air, land and water and to phase out many products that contain mercury. The Minamata Convention on Mercury - a global, legally binding treaty which opened for signature ...

Oct. 10, 2013

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the California Environmental Protection Agency is diverting millions of mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs from landfills in collaboration with the U.S. EPA under the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities program. Cal/EPA, the first state agency to join NPEP, will help lead the nation in continued efforts to remove ...

Nov. 29, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Connecticut based Northeast Lamp Recycling is now NLR: Next Level for Recycling. Founded in 1994, NLR offers turnkey universal waste recycling services of lamps, electronic waste, batteries, ballasts &, mercury devices to a broad group of companies and institutions including private and government office buildings, industrial complexes, educational facilities, hospitals, insurance companies, ...

May 12, 2008

By Northeast Lamp Recycling, Inc.

The era of analogue television, using standard cathode ray tube technology, is coming to an end judging by the growing demand for digital flat screen televisions. Currently, LCD screens are used for novel and compact televisions, computer monitors and protection systems and for such varied applications as education, computer science or entertainment. According to a study by iSuppli, and published ...

Sep. 20, 2007

A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for residential energy efficient lighting and lighting controls, including global market forecasts for LED, incandescent, halogen, and fluorescent lighting. Prices for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have come down dramatically, and the market for LED luminaires and lamps is set to explode in the residential sector ...

Oct. 6, 2014

By Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NCI)

The City of Tallahassee's Solid Waste Services Administration building has received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED, Silver certification from the United States Green Building Council. It is the second municipal building in Florida and the first in North Florida to earn the distinction. LEED certification is the points-based benchmark for the design, construction and ...

Jan. 29, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the National Park Service and the Trust for the National Mall today hosted a lighting ceremony to celebrate the installation of energy-efficient LED lights on the Mall.  The LED lights, donated by OSRAM SYLVANIA and installed pro bono by Pepco, the electric utility that serves Washington, D.C., will reduce lighting energy ...

Jan. 30, 2012

By US Department of Energy

The Los Angeles-based lighting and green-tech energy company Nularis, an exhibitor at the 2011 Dwell on Design expo, brings lighting out from behind the shade with a wide-ranging assortment of LED bulbs that are design-forward enough to stand alone. Nularis’ extensive Designer Collection features more than 70 LED bulbs for architectural and interior design applications—including several ...

Jun. 21, 2011

Light bulbs that last 100 years and fill rooms with brilliant ambiance may become a reality sooner rather than later, thanks to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory discovery. NREL scientists found a way to generate a tricky combination of green and red that may just prove to be the biggest boost for illumination since Edison's light bulb. Green isn't just a symbol of environmentalism, it is a ...

Apr. 5, 2010

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Nineteen environmental awards will be given to Massachusetts environmental groups, individuals, businesses, nonprofit and government agencies tomorrow in Boston’s Faneuil Hall as EPA presented its annual Environmental Merit Awards for 2011. In addition, a President’s Environmental Youth Award was given to the Boston Latin School Youth Climate Action Network, which received special ...

May 10, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency