Give a Gift to the Environment: Go LED
For the past few years, public holiday light displays across the country have been getting LED makeovers to help save energy and make celebrations greener. This year, the Oregon Zoo is encouraging Pacific Northwesterners to make the same switch for their own home displays.
Between now and December 31, you can recycle your old holiday light strings at the Zoo Store to make room for more environmentally-friendly LED strings, which use only a fraction of the energy of traditional lights and don’t heat up, fade in color or burn out the way conventional bulbs do.
The Oregon Zoo has been using LEDs for its ZooLights displays since 2000. More than half of its 1.25 million lights are now LEDs, which use only about one percent of the power of standard holiday lights and ten percent of the power of mini-lights.
Replacing holiday strings isn’t the only way to become more energy-efficient. LED lights can take the place of other lights around your home, including desk lamps. To find out more about the advantages of LED lighting in the home, read Environmental Benefits of LED Lighting at Home.
