Partnership for Sustainability hosts Light Bulb Exchange

The Partnership for Sustainability partnered with Harry Cooper Supply to offer a one-to-one Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulb exchange on Saturday, April 16. The partnership exchanged more than 5,000 bulbs.

15w CFLs are equivalent to 60w bulbs, but use 75% less energy and last 5 times longer.

The 5,000 bulbs exchanged will save:

• Life cycle savings $357,338
• Simple payback of additional cost 1 week
• Life cycle energy saved (kWh) 2,250,000
• Life cycle air pollution reduction (lbs of CO2) 3,465,000
• Air pollution reduction equivalence (number of cars removed from the road for a year) 287.8624
• Air pollution reduction equivalence (acres of forest) 357.2165

Information on Mercury in CFLs
Information on clean-up if a CFL is broken
FAQs from GE on CFLs (including dimmer switches)

In Springfield, unbroken CFL’s are accepted at the City’s Household Chemical Collection Center, Home Depot, the Computer Recycling Center.

Information as to hours, etc. for all of these is available by calling the City’s Recycling Hotline at 864-1904 or on line in the “Guide to Recycling in Springfield” on the City’s website www.springfieldmo.gov/recycling