Project Porchlight Blog
Thanks to the dedication of more than 1,100 volunteers and with funding from SaskPower Eneraction, the Project Porchlight team successfully distributed more than 200,000 free compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to residents door-to-door and at more than 100 community events across Saskatchewan during the fall of 2008!
Click here to see some of the amazing photos and incredible stories from our campaign and our volunteers across Saskatchewan. Thank you to everyone involved!
Interesting article
Very Interesting! I think this is the best thing that I have done to my house. I have removed all of my old light bulbs and replaced them with the fluorescent bulbs. They have saved me quite a bit of money on my power bill. Thanks for posting.
disposal of compact fluorescent bulbs
There is considerable hype about getting everyone to save on their use of electricity by switching to using compact fluorescent bulbs....however, there has been little or no information circulated about the SAFE and CORRECT way of disposing of the bulbs once they burn out....Nor is there information about the SAFE and CORRECT way to deal with a CFL if it breaks in your home.
I am aware that there is a small amount of mercury in the CFL bulb. It has taken me close to 30 minutes of searching on the Internet via 'google' to find out that all HOME DEPOT STORES apparently have a drop off area where the used bulbs can be taken to be disposed of in a safe way that supposedly will not involve contamination of our landfills.
Your group - Project Porchlight as well as SASKPOWER needs to get the information out to the residents and businesses of Saskatchewan that the mercury contained in CFL's and also other fluorescent light tubes is a contaminant that will, if sent to the landfill, leach into our soil, water etc.
PLEASE: It would be so simple for SASKPOWER to do a mailing t o all households in the province (they do have our addresses) with an information pamphlet about the hazards of the mercury and how to properly dispose of the bulbs/tubes.
There is a HOME DEPOT location near my home. I will use it! But there are not HOME DEPOT locations everywhere in Saskatchewan. Please, please, provide a listing of locations that do environmentally correct disposal of CFL's and tubes and let people know that throwing the bulbs in the garbage is just plain wrong.
Thank you.
I agree that there is
I agree that there is insufficient information disseminated on how to porperly dispose of these bulbs that Sask Power has encouraged everyone ot use.
disposal of compact fluorescent bulbs
Hi, thanks for your comments and we agree it is very important CFL light bulbs are being recycled appropriately.
We do provide information about the mercury in CFLs on our bulb package and encourage everyone to recycle them.
We have some information on our site to help people in Saskatchewan find out where they can recycle the bulbs on our CFL recyclers page under The Bulb on the main menu. Also under The Bulb there's a section on bulb disposal.
If we're missing a CFL recycler in Saskatchewan please let us know and we'll be happy to add it to our website.
You can share your concerns with Saskpower as well. If there aren't CFL recycling options in a community, contact the local municipality and demand that a recycling plan is implemented.
Thanks again for your comments.
Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for sharing this information. I found it very informative as I have been researching a lot lately on practical matters such as you talk about...
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