Cambridge City Council has further expanded the free light bulb recycling service it provides to residents through its partnership with Recolight. Originally one of the first local authorities to trial Recolight’s recycling scheme, Cambridge has gradually expanded the service to ensure that the city’s 130,000...
The 1 July 2007 marked the start of full producer compliance scheme obligations under the WEEE directive in the UK. Six years later and with big changes to the regulations underway, we thought it would be a good opportunity to take a step back and...
Today, officially launched a new recycling scheme providing low energy light bulb recycling facilities to the people of the City of London as well as a battery recycling scheme run by ERP. Working in partnership with recycling specialist Recolight, the City of London has installed specially...
Nigel Harvey, Chief Executive of Recolight, the UK’s WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, will be presenting on the revision of the WEEE Regulations at this year’s euroLED, a unique conference dedicated to the science and technology of LEDs. euroLED will be held on Monday...
Results from a survey at the Facilities Show in Birmingham this year showed that the majority of Facilities Managers think that all lamp producers should be required to offer free lamp recycling. Facilities Show survey From 14-16 May 2012, Recolight met industry players at the world’s leading...
Our research has found that the overwhelming majority of public sector organisations are not taking advantage of free lamp recycling services available to them. Currently, only 0.3% of public sector organisations benefit from our free lamp recycling service as a member of our national network...
From 14-16 May 2012, Recolight will be meeting industry players at the world’s leading facilities management event, The Facilities Show, in the NEC, Birmingham, to display and discuss its range of convenient and cost effective collection options for end of life Gas Discharge Lamps. Suzanne Castine,...
The long anticipated government consultation on the new WEEE regulations has been announced. It includes 23 questions for respondents. Of those, over half are technical questions concerned with proposals for changing the current household WEEE system. Recolight is delighted that changes are proposed. The current system...
Tewkesbury Borough Council is leading the way for recycling in Gloucestershire once again by offering residents the opportunity to recycle their energy saving light bulbs. The council has installed five recycling banks across the borough for residents to recycle their old energy saving light bulbs. This...