What is Being Green?

Being green in today’s lighting market is all about improving the quality of people’s lives with new product introductions and delivering value each and every day.

It’s about providing innovative lighting solutions to our customers that help reduce energy consumption while being environmentally responsible.

It’s about doing business and under-standing what impact our decisions have in our children’s future.

Calculate your saving
Using Standard 32 Watt Lamp
Current Lighting - 30,000 hrs rated avg life
Present Wattage	5,000	=	32
x Operating hours	5,000	=	160,000
/1000		=	160
x kW/h rate	$ 0.14	=	$ 22
x lamps per location	500	=	$11,200
Using 25 Watt T8 Lamp - 30,000 hrs rated avg life
Present Wattage	5,000	=	25
x Operating hours	5,000	=	125,000
/1000		=	125
x kW/h rate	$ 0.14	=	$ 18
x lamps per location	500	=	$8,750
Energy Savings = $2,450.00

Choosing Philips T8 Lamps with ALTOII can:

Reduce your Energy Costs
Reduce your Maintenance Costs
Reduce Mercury into the Environment
Create an interesting and well lit area

Massachusetts Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Facts

Using fluorescent lamps makes business and environmental sense because they consume one quarter as much electricity as incandescent lighting. At the same time, spent and broken fluorescent lamps need to be handled very carefully because they contain small amounts of mercury. Standard linear fluorescents, lamps with green end caps or green marking, compact fluorescents, high intensity discharge (HID), neon and high-pressure sodium lamps used in outdoor lighting all contain mercury.

The Mercury Management Act, enacted in 2006, prohibits all items that contain mercury, including low mercury fluorescent lamps, from being thrown in the trash effective May 1, 2008. As of this date, all mercury containing lamps must be recycled or managed as hazardous waste.

Recycling, Disposal and compliance made easy! Columbia offers a full line of Veolia recycle pack products – call us to find out more!