IDEA: Ditch the xmas lights
We could save a lot of electricity (money, carbon, karma) if we didn't use Christmas lights.
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Originally submitted by Changeling on 17 Dec 2007
whaddabout my solar ones???
I only put up solar outside fairy lights this year...surely I'm allowed those :)
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Gandhi
solar lights
Your solar lights will have copper cabling (with a PVC sheath), the solar cells will have produced at least 85% waste (ie for each unit of material that goes in only 15% actually end up used in the cell) as their manufacture is so inefficient, the bulbs may contain tungsten. I could go on but the point is that most of these are not renewable resources so keep using them for fairy lights and one day they will run out. Why not light a few beeswax candles outside instead?