Exchange old bulbs for new
Customers can bring back their used energy-saving bulbs to participating hardware suppliers and get spring flowering bulbs in exchange at no charge.
Woodies, Arro, Homevalue, Expert Hardware, and Topline are all taking part in the scheme which runs for the next four weeks. Customers should look out for the special bin-and-collect stands in-store.
Almost three million waste light bulbs were collected by WEEE Ireland in association with Irish Lamp Recycling last year.
Energy-saving lights can be recycled free at local authority civic amenity sites and other collection events throughout the country.
But about two-thirds of old bulbs are still going into general household rubbish bins or are hoarded at home.
WEEE Ireland chief executive Leo Donovan said: “It is our hope that the Great Bulb Exchange grows the awareness of recycling when people are changing energy saving bulbs in the home and that these unwanted bulbs end up being recycled and not thrown into the bin.”
