Expolanka Freight (EFL) brought back its bulb-for-a-bulb campaign for the second consecutive year to share a green conscious message.
EFL initiated the campaign for World Environment Day last year in Orugodawatte, a heavily industrialized 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. 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 gave away 4,000 LED bulbs.
With many countries phasing out the production of incandescent light bulbs due to low energy efficiency it is high time Sri Lanka followed suit, said Managing Director, EFL Sri Lanka, Saif Yusoof.
In Sri Lanka, electricity consumption in 2014 was 10,996.92 GWh, with households utilizing 65% of this. As part of the campaign EFL also conducted awareness sessions to urge participants to find more efficient ways to utilize energy. More importantly, the availability of other sources of energy such as harvesting rain water and recycling were also explored.
The simple message driving the campaign was ‘every little thing counts’, said Yusoof.
“We strongly believe that everyone has an important role to play in nurturing the planet and saving energy, and this campaign is proof to that. This year we were able to replace 4000 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,” he said.