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by Natasha Roy Sales Advisor

Proper lighting is a basic requirement of everyday life. We need lights in our homes, our offices, our warehouses and even on our streets. But even though lighting is such a big part of our everyday life, we hardly pay attention to it or give a second thought to choosing the right kind of lights for our homes or offices.

Light pollution is topic that hardly ever mentioned when talking about pollution of the environment. Light pollution is also known as luminous or photo pollution. It is caused as a result of industrialization and modernization. We have all studied about this in school, but none of us give it a second thought. But it’s time to start thinking about it, because this might be a cause of some serious health problems, can have adverse effects on our nocturnal wildlife and even our ecosystem. With all that is already wrong with the environment we don’t really need more to worry about, do we?

Here are some ways in which we can combat light pollution and lead a more sustainable lifestyle.

1. Lighting: Lighting is a big part of our energy consumption. We need both indoor and outdoor lighting for our homes, workplaces and even warehouses. Replacing regular lights with LEDs can significantly reduce your energy consumption. Retail LED lighting is becoming everyone’s choice for consumer lighting now. LED professional lighting come in a wide range of shapes and sizes and finding one that suits the overall décor of your home is not very difficult. The most important part about them is that LEDs consume less energy and last three to four times longer than regular lights. This makes them both energy and cost effective. They’re also brighter than regular lights.

2. Waste and recycling: Recycling is something that our government has started stressing on only recently. To recycle your waste what you first need to do is separate your wet and dry garbage. Your wet garbage includes food, fruit and vegetable peels, paper and any other items that are biodegradable. Dry garbage includes waste like plastic, wrappers etc. Wet garbage can generally be turned into compost; it can also be used to create bio-energy. The dry garbage goes to the dumps. Separating wet and dry waste can significantly reduce the size of our dumps.

3. Alternative energy: Install solar panels in your building and homes. Solar power is freely available and is a sustainable source of energy. Some societies have also adopted wind power as their primary source of energy. You can also choose energy efficient cars and vehicles. Automobile manufacturers have taken great strides to create vehicles that work on sustainable fuels. If your budget doesn’t allow you to, you can simply choose public transport more often or even cycle to work.