Free LED lights
November 28, 2007
Greening your Holidays
If you’ve managed to untangle your old strings of Christmas lights only to find out they don’t work, don’t throw them out. Toronto Hydro, in partnership with the City of Toronto and the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA), is holding its fourth annual Festive Light Exchanges in neighbourhoods across Toronto during the Cavalcade of Lights Festival.
In exchange for two sets of of your old incandescent lights, you’ll receive one string of energy-efficient LED festive lights. The City will recycle your old ones.
LED stands for light-emitting diode, a special type of semi-conductor diode that uses about 90% less electricity than traditional tungsten bulbs and can last for more than 50 000 hours. LEDs are encased in thick plastic rather than flimsy glass, so broken bulbs are a thing of Christmas past.
Not only will LED lights look good, they’ll bring your hydro bill down and lessen your ecological footprint. Talk about happy holidays.
Upcoming exchanges:
Thurday, November 29
Location: Riverside District, 791 Queen St. E at Degrassi (west of CN tracks)
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 1
Location: Beach, Kew Gardens, Queen St. E. at Lee Ave.
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Sunday December 2
Location: Mimico-by-the-Lake BIA, Mimico Ave. at Lake Shore Blvd. W.
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Fun facts:
- The trees lining the Champs-Elysees in Paris are glittering with nearly a million eco-friendly LED bulbs this year.
- Old-school lights on NYC’s annual giant tree at Rockefeller Center have been replaced with 30 000 multi-coloured LEDs strung along five miles of wire.
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