OPIRG Brock's Light Bulb Exchange was a huge success! From Monday September 10 through Friday September 14th OPIRG Brock's staff and volunteers exchanged 3,000 incandescent light bulbs for compact florescent ones. About 350 members of Brock's staff, faculty, and students participated in the exchange. The compact florescent bulbs, which were, distributed use 13w compared to the conventional incandescent 60w bulbs, which use about 70% less energy, and have a 7 year guarantee.
Those who wanted to exchange their light bulbs had to act fast, as when word got out people were lined up. Pictured is Brock Student Randi Townsend, who participated in exchanging her light bulbs before the crowd arrived. On Friday, September 14th, OPIRG gave away about 800 light bulbs in under an hour! Unfortunately this exhausted our supply of compact florescent bulbs, and had to turn people away.OPIRG Brock is now in the position of 3,000 incandescent light bulbs, which cannot be used to generate light. This would breech our agreement with Horizon Utilities the donator of the compact florescent bulbs. As a result of this condition we are hoping that perhaps some local artist out there will want to make a sculpture using these old light bulbs. Other wise we will take these bulbs to the transfer station for proper disposal. If you folks know of an artist who would like to work with this unusual medium please have them get in touch with us here at OPIRG Brock.
