Dear editor,
The government is banning hardware stores from selling incandescent lightbulbs, in favour of the mercury-laden CFLs for which there is no recycling yet.
We do have recycling cardboard boxes set up at various places into which one tosses the dead bulbs, but the boxes' destination is a bulb-crusher.
A low-heat lightbulb won't save anything anyway if a house is heated with electricity, and could cause an increase in electricity usage if the thermostat is raised to compensate for the close-proximity lightbulb heat loss.
What are we thinking?
John Ledsham,
Comox Valley
