 |
LED lighting has an extremely small carbon footprint. LED lights do not produce any UV radiation, LEDs also do not contain any harmful mercury.
|
|
Only 5% of the energy required to light Super Bright LEDs is consumed to heat generation. By contrast, 90% of the energy used for halogen lights is for heat generation.
|
|
LED lights do not require a ballast to operate. Ballasts contain PCBs and harmful human carcinogens.
|
|
LED lights use only about 25% of the energy of that fluorescent lighting uses. LEDs provide a 3/4 reduction in green house gases (required to create electricity) from entering our environment.
|
|
The cooler operating temperature of LED lights reduces the amount of electricity normally used to cool office spaces (thusly, saving more energy and reducing even more pollutants) .
|
|
LED lights can be dimmed, and turn on and shut-off instantly, they are fully compatible with occupancy sensors and photocells, yielding more savings on electricity usage while producing even less environmental pollutants.
|
|
The current most popular choice for commercial indoor lighting is fluorescent lamps. Fluorescent lights contain harmful mercury; which is a bio-accumulative toxin. Estimates of the amount of the mercury released when the fluorescent bulbs are broken found that between 17% and 40% of the mercury is released to the air during the two-week period immediately following breakage. Many fluorescent bulbs contain more mercury than the low-mercury bulbs tested; a typical bulb discarded in 2003 might release between 3 and 8 mg of elemental mercury vapors over two weeks. 4 mg of mercury is enough to pollute 7,000 gallons of water.
|
|
Approximetly 620 million (620,000,000) fluorescent bulbs are discarded yearly in the United States. That is the equivalent of 20 fluorescent bulbs being discarded every second of every day. In North America, we currently dispose of enough fluorescent tubes annually to pollute every gallon of water in our continent. 30 fluorescent tubes contain enough mercury to pollute enough water to fill the volume of a Goodyear. |
