The Government has announced that from April 2025, we will move to a digital waste tracking system, replacing the current manual/paper-based system. In particular, hazardous waste consignment notes and waste transfer notes will no longer be required. Instead, the same data will need to be...
Some 147 of the world’s largest economies have agreed an effective ban on fluorescent lamps by 2027. The decision, taken in Switzerland at the Minamata Convention on Mercury –will effectively putting an end to the fluorescent lighting industry, with the limited exception of special uses like...
Moving to circularity is one of the toughest tests that the lighting design industry is facing, says a leading lighting designer. Paul Nulty, founder of global lighting design practice Nulty, says the transition ‘feels like an almighty knot to unpick’. Writing in Designing Lighting Global magazine, he...
All 14,000 luminaires supplied for the interior of the new Bramley-Moore stadium for Everton Football Club on Liverpool Docks will have replaceable parts, it has been confirmed. Whitecroft Lighting – which has just secured the prestigious contract – says that the luminaires and lighting control systems on the...
The long awaited WEEE consultation is expected in the next few weeks. Informal discussions with stakeholder groups have taken place. That means we can be reasonably confident of some of the headline proposals on which they are likely to consult. The consultation will have two...
A UK lighting company has unveiled a downlight that’s been printed from plant-based polymers. Peterborough-based retail lighting specialist Shop Light says the Colt Bio is a luminaire based on circular economy principles. Made in the UK, the Colt Bio is a recessed fixed downlight made from sustainable...
A luminaire designed to minimise waste has got an ‘excellent’ rating in the circularity metric TM66. Thorlux Lighting’s SkyCore family of luminaires achieved a score of 2.5 in Cibse’s TM66 Circular Economy Assessment Method (CEAM). During the development of the SkyCore range, Thorlux engineers were tasked with dramatically reducing waste...
Trilux has teamed with a manufacturer of reusable wooden buildings in a deal that will see its SO-Tube LED luminaire included included in the structures. The company is collaborating with with a Berlin-based start-up called Urban Beta which makes environmentally responsible buildings using recyclable wooden modules. Their...
Producers of lighting equipment have an opportunity to review their WEEE scheme at the end of each year. The WEEE regulations require producers to commit to membership of a scheme for a whole calendar year. But some of the WEEE schemes used by lighting producers...
An office luminaire has become the first Zumtobel product to receive the latest version of the Cradle to Cradle certification. The Artelea free-standing unit is made from up to 80 per cent recyclable materials. It was designed to Zumtobel's Circular Design Rules and is one of the...