A RAFT OF lighting manufacturers are now offering to purchase luminaires after use. The Austrian architectural luminaire manufacturer Georg Bechter Licht has become the latest to offer a buy back service. It will take back its System Dot 28 range, pictured, for €5 at the end...
A LIGHTING refurbishment project in the north of England has proved that by reusing the original luminaires, you can provide cost savings, quality improvements and environmental gains as well as better margins for the supplier. The track-and-spot lighting at the imposing Grade II listed Jesmond United...
LIGHTINGEUROPE has joined the PEP Association, developer of the PEP ecopassport environmental declaration programme. The move is being seen as backing for the organisations life cycle assessment model, which has product specific rules for luminaires. In a statement, LightingEurope said: ‘As part of our activities in sustainability,...
Recolight’s first training workshop focusing on Lighting Product Design for a Circular Economy ran in London during April. The course was designed following feedback from the Recolight Circular Economy webinar series. We were told that the lighting industry need to fully understand the Circular Economy, and...
On 9 March, over 200 participants attended a webinar organised by EucoLight, the European Association of lighting WEEE compliance schemes. The webinar confirmed that five member states are now implementing national legislation to prevent WEEE non-compliance via online platforms. Speakers from France, Germany, Spain, Austria...
Recolight announce new series of workshops to help manufacturers embed circular economy principles in the design of lighting products. The one day in-person workshops will describe circular economy standards and specifications that companies can use to show the circularity of their products. They will also provide...
Recolight have confirmed dates for five new webinars in 2022, aimed at helping the lighting industry adopt circular economy principles. The webinars this year seek to move the focus from what needs to be done, to what’s actually being done now. Together with Ray Molony, who...
EucoLight, the European Association for Lighting WEEE Compliance Schemes, invites you to join their webinar EPR non-compliance through online marketplaces: the state of play on Wednesday 9 March - 10:30 – 13:00 CET Online free riding is a topic of high concern, well documented by the OECD and...
During 2021, a total of 19 companies joined the Recolight WEEE scheme. And from the beginning of 2022, another eight companies joined Recolight, five of which transferred from other schemes. The five companies transferring their compliance are TRILUX Lighting Ltd, C.U. Phosco Lighting Ltd, Urbis Schreder...
EucoLight, the European Association of lighting WEEE Compliance Schemes has carried out a successful study with Fraunhofer IZM on the technical feasibility for the automatic identification of waste lamp types. The study focused on the technology assessment for the separation of collected End-of-Life (EoL) lamps, more...