A Lighting industry body has set up a system that will allow charities to request free of charge light fittings. The Recolight Reuse Hub is intended to connect donors of unwanted lighting products with potential recipients – including charities. The offers include brand new products, and...
21 March 2024, 9:00 – 16:30 Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4LE The WEEE Conference 2024 promises to be an extensive exploration of the latest breakthroughs in the recovery, reuse, recycling, and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment. The event will deliver invaluable insights into...
Recolight is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors to their board. They are Steven Reed, Commercial Manager at Trilux, and Stephen Bell, Services Transformation & Compliance Director UK & IE at Zumtobel. Both have over 20 years of experience in the lighting...
How to sustainably manufacture lighting equipment Organised by the LIA and Recolight 15Hatfields Conference Centre, London Thursday 2 May 2024 The LIA and Recolight are delighted to be collaborating on the Net Zero Lighting Conference 2024, taking place on 2nd May in London. The agenda highlights net zero...
Recolight are delighted to announce that 15 companies joined Recolight in January 2024 , 12 of which transferred from other schemes. And during 2023, a total of 20 other companies joined the Recolight WEEE scheme. Commenting on this record growth, Nigel Harvey, CEO, Recolight said: “The...
The government launched the eagerly anticipated WEEE consultation on 28 December 2023. A range of measures are proposed within the joint UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive consultation. Recolight are pleased to see that the initial policy proposals cover what had been expected....
The Government has announced that from April 2025, we will move to a digital waste tracking system, replacing the current manual/paper-based system. In particular, hazardous waste consignment notes and waste transfer notes will no longer be required. Instead, the same data will need to be...
The long awaited WEEE consultation is expected in the next few weeks. Informal discussions with stakeholder groups have taken place. That means we can be reasonably confident of some of the headline proposals on which they are likely to consult. The consultation will have two...
“The reuse of reconditioned light fittings is starting to become mainstream. Major commercial real estate developers, their architects and design teams are beginning to either reuse luminaires from a retrofit project itself and, in an increasing number of cases, use luminaires from a completely different...
The Recolight Reuse Hub is a new digital marketplace for lighting. An online platform to facilitate the donation of new and used lighting products and equipment. Currently, there are considerable volumes of new and used lighting products that are needlessly recycled when they could be reused....