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June 24, 2008 – Vol.13 No.14 The Home Depot Launches National CFL Bulb Recycling Initiative. The free service is the first such offering made widely available by a retailer in the United States and offers customers additional options for making environmentally conscious decisions from purchase to disposal. At all 1,973 The Home Depot locations in the US customers can simply bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulbs, and give them to the store associate behind the returns desk. The bulbs will then be managed responsibly by an environmental management company who will coordinate CFL packaging, transportation and recycling to maximize safety and ensure environmental compliance. "With more than 75 percent of households located within 10 miles of a Home Depot store, this program is the first national solution to providing Americans with a convenient way to recycle CFLs, " said Ron Jarvis, senior vice president, Environmental Innovation at Home Depot.
According to the EPA's ENERGY STAR(R) program, if every American switched out one incandescent bulb to a CFL, it would prevent more than $600 million in annual energy costs and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from 800,000 cars. As the largest retailer of light bulbs in the country, The Home Depot sold over 75 million CFLs in 2007, which saved Americans approximately $4.8 billion in energy costs and 51.8 billion pounds in CO2 greenhouse gases over the life of the bulbs. In addition to the CFL recycling program, The Home Depot has also launched an in-store energy conservation program to switch Light Fixture Showrooms in US. stores from incandescent bulbs to CFLs by Fall 2008 and save $16 million annually in energy costs. The Home Depot(R) is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,262 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. (6/24/08
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