I am not replacing, but buying new. But, yes, that is a concern. But going by thousands of units just my local Walgreens and Walmart go through, plenty are being bought each year, and if only some of them were LED (and assuming the _making_ of the lights were equivalent in environmental costs), it might be enough.
For example, my family didn't wholesale replace incandescent with compact fluorescent, but instead are replacing them as they burn out. (Although we did replace all of the bright overheads in my sister's greatroom with dimmable compact fluorescents, which literally halved her electric bill) Another interesting "green" Christmas idea I read was to only gift old things. Antiques, or fixed items, or new pieces and parts for things you already own. And nothing that comes in plastic packaging or cardboard boxes. On Dec 6, 2007 2:55 PM, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the idea (and I read that too this morning, BTW) of saving all that > electricity, but just like every other Green "if you do/don't do X, we'll > save the entire planet in one day" idea, I think it has a negative side that > no one wants to see. In particluar, this one begs me to ask the question of > what are all those old incandescent lights going to end up after they are no > longer useful? > > I wonder what the impact on our landfills would be if everyone in the world > bought LED's and threw away their old lights? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
