When you’re tasked with searching for methods to do making your company or facility more ecologically friendly, exit signs may appear to be a drop in the bucket and not worthy of much consideration.

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Things aren’t always what they seem! Making the switch to green photoluminescent exits signs and egress markings can not only be a major cost-cutting move, but will also have a major effect on the carbon footprint your building leaves. Let’s inspect some of the ways self-luminous exit signs will help you get where you wish to go. First of all, photoluminescent exits signs use no electricity or any other sort of power. They gather and store background light when your building is in use and dispense it in the event of an emergency. They’re obvious to one hundred feet in hazy or dark environments, and will stay illuminated for a few days if they have to.

They do not need batteries or backup generators to make them handy when they are required, and they need almost no upkeep apart from the standard cleaning your building already needs. They’re one hundred percent reusable, and when their handy life is up, you simply dump them into the nearest rubbish bin and you are done. There are no special handling issues as there are with tritium exit signs, which are radioactive and need special disposal procedures carried out by approved dangerous material handlers. It is surmised that there are far more than a hundred million exits signs operating the US daily, running full time. This costs their firms more than $1 bln yearly in direct costs of power, installation, upkeep, and disposal.

By making the switch to photoluminescent exit signs, these firms could save more than $70 million a year. To have a look at this in more bite-size terms, a common building with a hundred photoluminescent exits signs would save more than $3,500 a year over incandescent exit sign lighting. This is a serious savings, and the energy saved is large also. By replacing these same one hundred signs, this building would see its carbon footprint reduced by some half 1,000,000 pounds of CO2 over the term of the product.

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