Fluorescent tube light bulbs can’t be thrown away in your normal bin; they need to be recycled at your local recycling point. This is because they contain components like mercury that are harmless to us when used in the light fixtures and lamps, but that do need to be recycled responsibly. This also means the valuable materials like glass and metal can be collected and used again and again. LED light bulbs, if retrofitted, can be recycled but may come with a recycling fee. You’re free to either recycle them at a local recycling point or throw away individual bulbs in your household bin since there’s currently nothing in place to prohibit this. Incandescent light bulbs or your ‘standard light bulbs’ can be thrown away in your normal household waste bin, but other types of light bulbs need specialist care. This is the same for Halogen light bulbs, as both types of bulbs have very fine wires that are time-consuming to remove during the recycling process. Rated luminous flux 806 lumens. This is a measure of light and indicates the power of the light emitted. The lumens is the brightness of the bulb, so a bulb with low wattage but high lumens means higher energy efficiency to light output. Choosing the lumens you want for your light bulb depends on where you’re going to be using it. For desk and tabletop lamps, for example, you’ll probably want lower lumens than for your hanging ceiling light. Lower lumens mean softer, more ambient light, and higher lumens means brighter, so you can achieve the correct lighting level for the fixture you’re replacing. The Kelvins, or warm and cool light

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Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), more commonly known as eco or energy saving bulbs, can be recycled at a local recycling point. There’s nothing currently stopping you from throwing them away in your household bin, but they contain valuable parts such as glass and metal that are easy to separate out, so it’s more eco-friendly to recycle them if you can find the time to drop them off. With this dimmable bulb, you can dim from a 2200k warm light to a 2700K light. The more you dim, the warmer the light.

Colour rendering index 90 - this is a scale from 0 to 100% indicating how accurate a light source is at rendering colour. The higher the better.