Students of design have turned their attention to how lighting companies can reuse the waste from manufacturing luminaires. Ideas included dramatic sculptures, a range of food bags made from recycled fabrics and cables and a catalogue of semi-finished lighting products made from waste materials. Young people from...
A series of workshops on how to make a light fitting for the circular economy has been announced by Recolight. The educational events explore the design criteria, regulations and standards to help lighting manufacturers apply and demonstrate circular economy principles in product development. Hosted by industrial designer...
"It’s not unusual for retailers to rip out a store two years after it's been installed, removing they're perfectly good downlights," says Lucent Lighting’s global operations director Lucie Sidwell. Here she tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about the measures the company is taking to...
A luminaire with replaceable GU10 lamps may have a lower environmental impact than one with an integrated LED module. That’s the surprising finding of a survey prepared by Arup for a client. The practice compared a downlight with a fixed LED to one with a GU10 lamp....
Lighting manufacturers and specifiers are being warned that time is running out to comment on the UK Government’s proposed minimum efficacy requirements for light sources. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is proposing a minimum energy performance standard (MEPS) for light sources and lamps...
The City of London is telling building owners and tenants in the Square Mile to reduce their lighting to cut unnecessary energy use and light pollution. According to newly published planning guidance, the City of London Corporation is to create special ‘brightness zones’ in which mandate...
Italian lighting design giant Flos has joined the trend towards minimalist luminaires with the launch of a range of adhesive-free table lamps which are easily demounted and recycled. The To-Tie light has been reduced to its minimal components, says its designer Guglielmo Poletti. It comprises three distinct...
A Tokyo-based product designer has unveiled a softly-glowing light which uses no electricity or battery. Instead, a specially treated ‘light-collecting’ acrylic surface absorbs ultra-violet light and redirects light to its edges. Nisshoku, meaning ‘eclipse’ in Japanese as its resembles a solar eclipse, is believed to be the...
Fagerhult has unveiled Kvisten, a luminaire whose reflectors are made from discarded television sets. It’s made from 77 per cent recycled or renewable materials, including a body is made entirely of pine plywood housing with Birch veneer. An innovative new louvre reduces plastic by 50 per cent...
Luminaire maker Trilux has adopted the reuse model of lighting circularity by retrofitting over 400 fluorescent office lights with LEDs to increase efficiency and reduce material waste. The upgrade took place at One London Wall, a prominent curved landmark designed by Foster & Partners with 2,500 square...