From January 1, 2014 , Canada will formally ban 75 -watt and 100 -watt incandescent bulbs (Incandescent Light Bulb), and 40 and 60 watt bulbs will also complete ban on December 31, 2014 .
Meanwhile, the Canadian manufacturer has officially ceased to retailers incandescent bulbs , the major Canadian retail mall soon will no longer appear incandescent bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs , or Canadians can only buy LED bulbs (Fluorescent or LED Light Bulb). Thus, the historical mission of the incandescent bulb into the end in North America.
However , not all incandescent bulbs can not be used , there are places that can be used , such as oven and refrigerator bulbs must use incandescent bulbs , the two parts of the bulb can not be replaced by another lamp. In other words, the people of Canada from January 1, 2014 only to see more of fluorescent light bulbs or LED bulbs at retailers , incandescent bulbs will be very small , only buy used in the oven and refrigerator incandescent bulbs.
To save energy , but also to reduce the burden of energy costs to consumers , the Canadian Federation had released plans to ban incandescent bulbs in 2007 , was planned in 2012 nationwide ban incandescent bulbs . The resolution one , opposition parties were people do not like this across the board in the form of replacing incandescent bulbs , consumers and the lighting industry would like to have time to adapt to the new standards. Accordingly, the Federal ** conducted in 2011 also decided to ban incandescent bulbs phased program , that is, from January 1, 2014 , officially disabled 75 and 100 -watt incandescent bulb ; since December 31, 2014 40 and 60 watts total ban incandescent bulbs. In addition, delay disabled incandescent bulbs but also to the development of recovery plans Province innovative bulb technology because fluorescent bulbs to replace incandescent bulbs consume less power , and although there is a longer life , but contain mercury .
Although some people worry replace incandescent bulbs UV fluorescent bulb or LED bulb may affect human health, but Health Canada says radiation released all the bulbs are the same , people just keep a distance of 30 cm when the lamp is on , will not be affected by the ultraviolet light .