Yellow Recycled Traffic Light Pendant Lamp
The United States is upgrading stoplights to a more efficient technology, leaving these old glass lenses obsolete. Jumping in to keep them out of the landfill, the folks at Greenlight Concepts are creating beautiful light fixtures. Naturally available in Red, Yellow and Green.
$240.00 at Greenlight Concepts
July 3rd, 2006 16:05
[...] Via Treehugger: Across the United States, giant truckloads of red, yellow, and green lenses are tossed into land-fills as cities upgrade to more efficient lighting technology. The folks at Greenlight Concepts are reclaiming these glass artifacts to create “Stoplights” — a new line of lighting fixtures. As you might expect, the lamps come in Red, Yellow, Green versions but they also have clear ones too. They’re priced from $240 to $299 — ouch! :: Greenlight Concepts via Great Green Goods • • • [...]
July 11th, 2006 03:30
[...] greatgreengoods.com showcases some awesome products made from reused/discarded materials, such as traffic lights, rubber tires, and movie billboards. Posted by riva Filed in blogging, art, environment [...]
August 26th, 2006 23:22
[...] We’ve mentioned before that the United States is upgrading stoplights to a more efficient technology using LEDs, leaving these old glass lenses obsolete. If the Traffic Light Pendant is not your style, grab some traffic light dishes. They are colorful and they’ve been around the block before. I need to learn some traffic light history a bit, since there seem to be no green, but yellow+blue?? 8″ Dessert Plates are $35.00 each and Set of Four is $115.00 12″ Large Dinner Plates are $55.00 each and Set of Four is $190.00 at Recycled Glassworks [...]
July 13th, 2011 20:16
Excellent traffic light pendant upgraded and very useful for now.