Taiwan launches LED light swap event (Courtesy of MOE)

TAIPEI (TVBS News) — The Ministry of Environment (MOE, 環境部) will launch a lighting replacement promotion from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31, encouraging citizens to recycle old light tubes and bulbs at designated stores and purchase LED alternatives. Participants can register on the event website to enter a prize draw.

Wong Wen-ying (翁文穎), a division chief at the MOE’s Resource Circulation Administration (資源循環署) fund management committee, noted that traditional light tubes and bulbs…