Australia first to ban incandescent lightbulbs
Significant savings for emissions and consumer lighting costs from new efficiency standards.
4-07 Reuters reports:
CANBERRA -- Australia will be the world's first
country to ban incandescent lightbulbs in a bid
to curb Greenhouse gas emissions, with the
government saying on Tuesday they would be phased
out within three years. Environment Minister
Malcolm Turnbull said yellow incandescent bulbs,
which have been in use virtually unchanged for
125 years, would be replaced by more efficient
compact fluorescent bulbs by 2009.
"By that stage you simply won't be able to buy
incandescent lightbulbs, because they won't meet
the energy standard," Turnbull told local radio.
Turnbull said the banning of incandescent bulbs
would help trim 800,000 tonnes from Australia's
current emissions level by 2012 and lower
household lighting costs by 66 per cent.
Edited by Carolyn Allen, owner/publisher of Solutions For Green
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