The Government has updated its guidance on how lighting industry Producers should decide if products are classified as Household (B2C), or Non-Household (B2B). Recolight has published advice on how to comply with the changed requirements. Previously, the approach to classification as B2B or B2C was largely...
The Government has now updated its guidance on how Producers should decide if products are classified as Household (B2C),or Non-Household (B2B) under the WEEE regulations. Recolight has provided further guidance to its members. The change has implications for lighting producers. For luminaire producers, some products will fall out...
The EA have today published updated scope guidance for the WEEE regulations. The guidance is pragmatic, but some lighting producers will need to change the way they report the products they sell, where they supply luminaires incorporating user replaceable LED modules. 1. All business luminaires (conventional...
The Government has announced that it intends to implement ‘dual use’ in WEEE recycling. The key change will be to classify products likely to be used by both businesses and consumers as household. The effect of this change is to further improve the WEEE legislation,...
Nigel Harvey, CEO of Recolight, the leading UK WEEE compliance scheme for lamps, will be speaking at LuxLive 2014, discussing the key changes and consequences of the new Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment regulations. The presentation will take place at Tech Theatre Two at 1.00pm...
The following press release has been issued by the JTA. The Joint Trade Associations (JTA) has revealed further details of the mechanism it has proposed to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to calculate the WEEE compliance fee. The JTA has provided BIS with a...
A survey commissioned by Recolight has shown that 95.1 per cent of respondents think that all lamp producers should be required to offer free recycling. Recolight, the leading WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, partnered with Voltimum to assess industry opinions on lamp recycling. There...
Recolight currently provides those UK lamp recyclers who chose to respond to a tender in 2012, with a capped subsidy for waste lamps they collect from their own customers. This subsidy is known as Delegated User Arrangements, or DUA. From 1 January 2015, the Recolight...
In a recent court case, the largest distributor of mobile phones in the UK was found to be in breach of the WEEE regulations. The mobile phone logistics firm had failed to register with a compliance scheme, among six other charges, and was fined more...
This week the Government announced a short consultation to amend the way the business WEEE system works. The Government intends to change the classification of products sold to businesses that can be used both by consumers and businesses. These so called “dual use” products will now...