Lights

Most people know that the most environmentally friendly lights are L.E.D. lights, but what do you do with your old lights? Where do you buy these lights? How much better are they? In this post I hope to answer all these questions and more!

Lights Old and New

Well why not go back to the basics of environmental responsibility? Recycling! A lot of places have light recycling programs, like Canadian Tire has a program that if you bring in your old lights you get 30% off new lights. You would have to see what programs are available to you locally, but a lot of companies have a discount for when you bring old lights in.

Pricing
On average L.E.D. lights cost seven to eight dollars more then incandescents lights, but are they worth it? The people at http://www.TheHomeImprovmentsDepot.com did all the calculations to figure out how much more incandescents cost per "Christmas season" (5 hours x 30 days). They thought lights would be used for aproximatly 150 hours and thier electricity costs nineteen cents per killowatt hour (Vancouvers in six cents). They came to the conclusion that six strands of incadescent lights would cost $8.21 and six strands of L.E.D. lights would cost $1.37 for the Christmas season. Yes that means that Christmas lights could cost under a dollar fifty with L.E.D. lights. :)

Lifetime
So L.E.D.s are far cheaper in electricity then incandescents, but if they last only one year they aren't really worht it, are they? Most L.E.D. lights advertise an average lifetime of 20,000 hours. That means they should last over 100 years! Some people may be a bit skeptical about that, and yes likely something better will come around or lights will simply break, but the 20,000 hours lets you know they will last for a good couple years. :)

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