A Bulb for a Bulb: EFL returns with annual green campaign

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Illuminating homes whilst sharing a green conscious message, Expolanka Freight (EFL) brought back its Bulb for Bulb campaign for the second consecutive year.

EFL initiated the Bulb for Bulb campaign for World Environment Day last year in Orugodawatte, a heavily industrialised town neighbouring the company’s Sri Lankan operations. The idea was quite simple – for every incandescent bulb offered, EFL would replace it with an LED bulb free of charge. In this way 1,000 EFL employees across 10 offices as well as 1,000 homes in Orugodawatte were involved in the initiative. When the campaign returned this year, EFL was able to give away 4,000 LED bulbs in total facilitating an energy saving of 80%. With many countries phasing out the production of incandescent light bulbs due to low energy efficiency it is high time Sri Lanka followed suit, noted EFL Sri Lanka Managing Director Saif Yusoof.

As part of the campaign EFL also conducted awareness sessions to urge participants to find more efficient ways to utilise energy. The simple message driving the campaign was ‘every little thing counts’, said Yusoof.

“This year we were able to replace 4,000 energy inefficient incandescent bulbs with the more environmentally friendly LEDs – we hope that these households notice the difference in their electricity bills and continue buying LED bulbs in the future.”