[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Recolight provide WEEE compliance for all WEEE lighting. But we offer more than just compliance; we provide an integrated free lamp and luminaire recycling service for your customers and all end users. We can do this because we operate as a...
Much is being published promoting Circular Economy principles of greater resource efficiency, but how does this impact the lighting industry? The model calls for reduction of waste, increasing the useful life of products, reusing and recycling more, and reducing reliance on virgin raw materials. Our...
WEEE compliance explained and why lamp recycling should be free. WEEE compliance and WEEE recycling explained The WEEE regulations were introduced to the UK 10 years ago with the sole purpose of producers taking responsibility for recycling electronic equipment at the end of its life. This concept...
The latest lamp recycling data was released by the Environment Agency at the end of November. This shows that 4141 tonnes have been collected up to end September 2016. If collections continue at the same rate to the end of the year, the national target...
Nigel Harvey, Recolight CEO gave an overview of the possible impact of Brexit on the UK environmental legislation that affects the Lighting Industry. Harvey explained that EU legislation effects in the UK in two principal ways. Directives, such WEEE, EMC, and the LVD, are transposed into...
Recolight will be exhibiting at LuxLive 2016, ExCel London 23 to 24 November. The company will be highlighting the expansion of its free recycling service for all waste lighting. Recolight is the UK’s largest lighting WEEE scheme, and the customers of Recolight members can access a...
Most Local Authority household waste recycling centres collect WEEE. And under WEEE regulation 34, a Local Authority can require any PCS to make a WEEE collection, from any site in the UK, subject to certain conditions. The availability of regulation 34 is good news for...
Recolight currently collects waste lamps from a significant proportion of the UK’s Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs). The company is today writing to all its Local Authority Partners, to confirm that they may choose to deposit waste lamps from commercial sources in Recolight containers. These...
Recolight will be at the RWM exhibition in Birmingham in September, to encourage all visitors to benefit from free lamp recycling services. The 2016 RWM event will take place on 13 to 15 September at the NEC Birmingham. Recolight can be found at stand 4G12. Recolight is the only...
Breakage of waste lamps, either when they are placed in a container, or during transport, is probably the biggest source of fugitive mercury emissions associated with lamp recycling. As a result, the correct design of waste lamp containers is vital to ensure that lamps can...