A German ‘urban miner’ is assisting developers and building owners in keeping light fittings and other construction materials in use during upgrades and refurbishments. Concular, based in Berlin, provides a comprehensive circularity service which includes recording and cataloguing all material in a building, including luminaires, and...
Major lighting manufacturers have thrown their weight behind the UK’s biggest sustainable lighting event, Circular Lighting Live 2024. Platinum sponsor Signify is joined by Gold sponsors Holophane Europe, Bell Lighting, Llumarlite, ASD Lighting and Glamox Luxonic in supporting the growing the one-day conference and exhibition. Circular 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...
Italian lighting brand Artemide has unveiled a major range which features the use of partially recycled, recyclable and easily dismantled materials. Dreispitz is a single product with double emission thus adapts to the three dimensions of space with different standalone and systemic versions. Artemide describes Driespitz as...
Global hamburger chain McDonald’s has begun rolling out 3D printed pendants to its restaurants and says it wants to have them in 100 outlets this year. The translucent pendants – created earlier this year by Signify’s Philips MyCreation to McDonald’s specification – are semi-spherical and feature an embossed...
Each luminaire is set to its own ‘passport’ under an environmental initiative launched in London this week. The Materials Passports scheme – unveiled in a major policy paper by the leading architectural practice Orms and Lancaster University – has been gaining increasing support among the capital’s design...
Bell Lighting has become carbon neutral as part of its shift towards sustainability. The Normanton-based firm said it was a first step towards reaching its net zero goal in the coming years. The company has recently introduced circular economy-focused products into its range and developing a strategy...
Thorlux Lighting, as part of FW Thorpe Plc, has set and submitted its emissions reduction targets for validation by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), committing itself to achieving net zero status by 2040. The SBTi is a recognised global organisation promoting ambitious corporate climate action. In consultation with specialised...
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 South African government has effectively banned traditional lighting technologies by introducing minimum efficacy performance standards (MEPS). It has ruled that all light sources for sale in the country should have a minimum luminous efficiency rate of 90 lumens per watt (lm/W) rising to 105 lm/W...