The Harmful effects of LEDs and CFLs in India and in World in general. Why most people are unaware of the dangers!
It was around 2009 and I was working as a software engineer at Hewlette Packard in Bangalore, India. Around that time, I was very active working as a CSR coordinator for HP and also got myself involved in many social development and awareness activities. During this time that, LED bulbs were getting a major push from Government agencies, Even environmental groups like Greenpeace apart from their respective manufactures. Their moto was, embrace LEDs and CFLs to fight the low voltage, less availability of electricity at the time in India. I know the issue of efficient power distribution is still an issue in India especially in its rural areas. But, on researching in the Net, I could see a lot of potential environmental issues from CFLs(very widely used in India still) and upcoming LEDs. Though LEDs were much less worse than CFLs, the environmental contamination from mass use is still an issue. Apart from the retinal changes and skin cancer possibilities from long term exposure to LE...