UK: Meet the bulb hoarders
BBC News [UK]Posted: July 1st, 2008 by Thomas L. Knapp
“The government wants your old-fashioned energy-hungry incandescent tungsten light bulb gone, and gone soon. But some people are willing to go to great lengths to hang onto the lights they love. Incandescent bulbs — that’s the traditional kind to you or me — waste 95% of the energy they use, according to Greenpeace. They calculate that phasing them out in the UK will save more than five million tonns in CO2 emissions a year. And yet some households are so attached to them that they not only keep buying them — they’re stockpiling them ahead of the day when they’re no longer available.” (06/30/08)
