Happy new year

The classic image of the bright idea is a lightbulb floating above the head of the person undergoing the eureka moment. That image is somewhat ironic when you consider that these 26 components are the gubbins that is enclosed within the ecologically friendly light bulbs we are encouraged to buy as a brilliantly simple idea for reducing energy consumption. As to the original incandescent light whose discovery prompted the lightbulb image in the first place.... I am afraid even a cursory search on the web will find you a lot of nasty details on the inventor Edison and I don't in any way condone his foisting upon us heaters that also happened to produce light.
However, it seems to me that the energy required to produce the little microcosm of joyful electron handlers shown here must constitute an intolerable amount of waste if they are all thrown out with the bulb. There should be a rethink on this immediately before these wasteful things become accepted. The bulb housing should be detachable from the bulb itself and bare bulbs with no built in ballast circuit should be available on the shelves alongside the bulbs with ballast at the point of sale at an appropriate price like refil packs of washing up detergent, etc. alongside the dispenser bottles containing the same liquid.
Well, I mean to say, enough is sufficient after all.
In the meantime I have confiscated these components for use in circuits of my own.