Home Electronics and Appliance Retailer Discontinues Incandescent Light Bulb Sales at its Stores

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Nojima Corp., a Japanese home electronics and appliance retailer, stopped selling all incandescent light bulbs, excluding special types such as halogen and mini-krypton bulbs at all of its outlets as of the end of February 2010. This is the first such effort in the home electronics industry.

Through this effort, Nojima aims to encourage consumers to replace conventional light bulbs with energy-saving light bulbs such as light-emitting diode lights and fluorescent lights, thereby reducing electricity consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The company also works with a recycling company to recycle the light bulbs that are brought in to its outlets when customers switch to energy-saving types.

Agreeing with Kanagawa Prefecture's project to stop the use of incandescent lights based on the prefecture's initiative of "Cool Renaissance Declaration," the company discontinued the sales of incandescent light bulbs at its outlets. It also signed a "Cool Renaissance Partner Agreement" with Kanagawa Prefecture in order to work together to address global warming.

Kanagawa Prefecture announced its Cool Renaissance Declaration in January 2008, calling for the "restoration of the Earth" in local communities. The declaration was made on the first commitment year of Kyoto Protocol, when the world began to seriously tackle the global warming issue.

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Posted: 2010/05/27 06:00:15 AM