A row has broken out over the sustainability of London’s remaining 275 Victorian gas lamps. Westminster City Council is said to be exploring the viability of converting its historic lamps to LED. Advocates of the change argue that the lights are responsible for significantly more carbon emissions...
Schneider Electric has unveiled a range of electrical accessories made from discarded fishermen’s nets. The Merten M-Pure Ocean Plastic is made from 50% regular plastic and 50% from discarded fishermen’s nets. The company – which showed the range of switches, dimmers and sockets at Light + Building in...
We mark your card for a visit to October’s Light + Building exhibition in Frankfurt. Bega Hall 3.0, C91 Bega is promising both indoor and outdoor luminaires inspired by nature, including numerous additions to its Studio Line series. New track spotlights, linear wall lights and downlights with...
THE DATE and venue for next year’s Circular Lighting Live have been named by the organiser Recolight. The event – which sold out – will move to a bigger venue, Royal College of Physicians in London, and take place on Thursday 21 September 2023. Recolight says the venue will...
THORN Lighting has announced that all its products in its ThornECO range will be fully plastic free by the end of the year. The company says the challenge has been to remove single-use plastic without negatively impacting on user experience. It says it has seen the challenges...
The Circular lighting live conference and exhibition sold out over a week before the event was due to take place. With 250 registered attendees from specifiers, manufacturers and suppliers, the one-day conference, which took place on 22 September, discussed how the lighting industry can make...
The UK lighting industry appears to be increasingly uniting behind TM66 as an agreed measure of the circular principles of a luminaire. The metric received repeated endorsement at a gathering of leading manufacturers and specifiers at the inaugural Circular Lighting Live event in London last week...
Designplan Lighting says it has managed to reduced its usage of plastic packaging since 2017 by 77 per cent. The UK-based firm – part of the Fagerhult Group – achieved this through what it terms ‘smart box design’. Introducing crush zones removes the need for plastic bumpers,...
A SLEW of circular lighting initiatives and projects have been recognised in the latest lighting category of the Build Back Better Awards. Speirs Major’s lighting design for the Our Time on Earth exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London was awarded both a Build Back Better...
A PLASTIC light pendant version of Stoane Lighting’s ZTA50 has achieved a TM66 environmental rating of 2.6, putting it in the excellent category. The company says the pendant blends excellent light quality, circularity and flexibility whilst repurposing waste acrylic. It functions as a decorative pendant, some capturing...