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Household items can range from cleaners to bicycles, so it’s difficult to define a recycling standard. However, more often than not, these materials will have to be specially picked up or dropped off because standard curbside programs don’t exist.
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New LED Bulb Cooled by Jet Technology
Written by Matt Hickman, Mother Nature Network
Some big ‘n’ bright news from the world of energy-efficient lighting today:
GE has announced the world debut of the 27-watt Energy Smart LED bulb, a dimmable 100-watt replacement bulb that boasts superior energy-sipping lighting technology — 25,000-hour (22.8-year) life span, 1,6000+ lumens, 3000K color temperature — all wrapped up in a neat, tidy, and incandescent-shaped (A19) package.
Developed at GE’s East Cleveland, Ohio, LED lab, the omnidirectional, instant-on bulb was designed in collaboration with GE ecoimagination Challenge winner, Austin-based Nuventix. Given that as a LED bulb’s wattage output grows, so does its need for a … read more
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