A workshop, hosted by EucoLight, the European association for lighting WEEE compliance schemes, gathered over 100 experts to discuss online sales of non-compliant products. The workshop concluded that solutions must be implemented to make online marketplaces responsible for products sold through their portals. The workshop,...
Recolight publishes a definitive guide on WEEE open scope for the lighting industry The WEEE Regulations have applied to a range of products since 2007. A specific exclusion meant that household luminaires were also of scope. From 2019, the Regulations move to an open scope. The household luminaire...
Open scope on brief The definitive lighting industry guide to household luminaire and WEEE open scope The WEEE Regulations have applied to a closed scope of products since 2007. Unless a product was listed in the fourteen categories, then they were out of scope. A specific exclusion...
EucoLight, the European WEEE lighting trade association, is hosting a half day workshop on 17 Oct in Brussels to discuss the scale of the online non-compliance problem. Speakers from leading European Associations will share experiences, including WEEE freeriding, VAT non-payment, and non-compliance with safety standards....
Recolight has been raising awareness of the increasing number of online marketplaces failing to comply with the WEEE Regulations for some time. Such non-compliant organisations are referred to as Free Riders, because they are not paying their share of recycling costs. This is a problem for...
Recolight, the UK’s leading lighting WEEE compliance scheme has announced a major milestone having funded the recycling of 300 million fluorescent & LED lamps and luminaires since the WEEE regulations were implemented in 2007. This is enough waste to fill the Royal Albert Hall ten...
Recolight will be at RWM in September to talk to you about all the WEEE recycling services we now offer. With Recolight lamp recycling is free. This is because we operate as a non-profit WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry. We are funded by our...
The EPR Club discussed how to tackle online freeriding at a debate on 18 June in Brussels. It was hosted by EucoLight, EXPRA and the WEEE Forum , representing three important product streams under EPR. Round the table were representatives from EPR organisations, the European Commission, and...
Recolight welcomes signals that Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) will feature heavily in Defra’s forthcoming Resources and Waste Strategy. EPR regimes make producers of new product responsible for the recycling of their products when they become waste. There are currently four EPR regimes in the UK –...
EucoLight has welcomed OECD report on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the impact of online sales’, to which EucoLight members contributed. Recognition of the online WEEE non-compliance challenge, (free-riding), faced by Producer Compliance Schemes is a vital first step to addressing the problem. EucoLight endorses the...