Ikea Staff Light-Bulb Giveaway!

Ikea is taking creative strides in making the swedish furniture company greener. It's giving away energy-efficient light bulbs to all of its employees, saving the employees a lot of electricity costs in the long-run.

As part of its ongoing plans to reduce its environmental impact, Ikea said every new employee, as well as every current employee, would receive the bulbs, which would cost the company about £45,000 (around US$88,000) to start. The company will also replace the light bulbs for free when they stop working in about five years.

"Every new worker will also get a pack of bulbs as part of their package when they join the company," Charlie Browne, environment manager at Ikea U.K., told the Guardian. "We have been taking measures to save energy at our stores and we also have an obligation to educate our co-workers."

SustainaBee says: This is great! I hope more companies will follow in IKEA's footsteps. This will make the employees think more about energy-efficiency in their surroundings. With me, it also started with a light-bulb.
Now if they could just persuade all their customers to get hybrid or electric vehicles for their IKEA-shopping...