WA-Oak Hill CDC CFL Drive

As part of the WA-Oak Hill CDC CFL drive to distribute over 2,000 energy saving CFL bulbs to the school and neighborhood community, students from WA and North High School spent three afternoons installing bulbs into neighborhood apartments along Providence and Aetna St as well as in units of a senior residence building on Upsala St.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s) use up to 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs, and last up to ten times longer. CFL bulbs reduce greenhouse gas emissions, smog, acid rain, and mercury pollution. From the government’s Energy Star website: “If every American home replaced their 5 most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, we would save close to $8 billion each year in energy costs, and together we would prevent the greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from nearly 10 million cars.”

However they need to be managed properly when broken and recycled when spent. See CFL Bulb Links to the right.

For a direct list of locations in Massachusetts for recycling old bulbs click on RecyclingCFLs