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Households with halogen lightbulbs will have to spend up to three times as much to replace the bulbs with greener LED alternatives as Cabinet ministers vowed to ban the sale of the former from September. The move is part of the Government s environmental plan and aims to reduce the UK s CO2 emissions by 1.26million tons a year, equivalent to removing 500,000 cars from the roads, it has been claimed. But consumers are faced with a increased up-front costs to buy LED bulbs to replace any halogen ones they have as they run out. Halogen lightbulbs were commonly used in spotlights in the 1990s and 2010s and many households will still have them in their homes - though people do not need to get rid of them with the ban. ....