Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)
Custom duty waiver for CFLs in budget: Nothing to cheer about
Likely to make LEDs cheaper only by Rs 10 to Rs 12
Inventors of blue LEDs win Nobel Prize in physics
Their invention could help provide light to billions of people who still have no access to electricity
Unaware people, unavailable options help carbon emitting light bulbs sell
Sale of incandescent bulbs, which consume four times more power than a CFL, accounted for half the total sale of bulbs and tubelights in India …
MoEF drags feet over law for safe disposal of CFLs
Reasons for prolonged delay unknown
WHO sets emissions standards for reducing indoor air pollution
4.3 million global premature deaths around each year attributed to illnesses caused by household air pollution
Court upholds Soliga tribe’s community forest rights
Orders forest department to restore honey seized during raid
Industry sets the rules to dispose of CFLs safely
Proposes pilot project for collecting, recycling CFLs in three cities