Recolight has welcomed a further increase in the UK’s annual lighting waste recycling rates. Data released today by the Environment Agency (EA) shows that the 2017 lamp recycling rate was 48.5% – up from 47.5% in 2015. At the same time, the luminaire rate also...
Three leading European trade associations have written an open letter to the European Commission, calling for action to tackle non-compliance with waste legislation, of sales through online retailers. The letter is co-signed by EucoLight, the WEEE Forum, and EXPRA. The letter draws attention to high levels...
In June 2017, Wastecare and Weeecare opened high court proceedings against Recolight in respect of lamp evidence and unpaid invoices. In July 2017 Recolight responded with a counterclaim. Recolight are pleased to report that the case has been satisfactorily settled out of court....
Today, 20 October, the Government announced a consultation on the WEEE regulations. It covers some key issues for the lighting industry. It invites comments on how “open scope”, which brings household luminaires into scope, is to be implemented. There is also a vital opportunity to...
Recolight studied the extent of online freeriding in the UK. To do this, Recolight chose an online retailer/fulfillment house, and ran a search on “LED bulb”. This revealed the following: 91 of first 120 records were freeriders (The producer was not listed on the UK...
On 13 September over 80 delegates from across 12 different countries met to discuss ways to tackle the growing number of online market places that fail to be WEEE compliant with the EEE regulations. This is referred to as freeriding. The introductory speaker Peter Börkey of...
Two European trade associations are hosting a seminar in September to focus on the WEEE compliance of online retail platforms. EucoLight and WEEE forum are running the seminar together to draw attention to an OECD report that suggests a high level of non-compliance in online...
EucoLight, the European Association for lighting WEEE compliance schemes, has conducted a multinational consumer survey. The survey concluded that many consumers were unable to distinguish between different lamp types. The results reveal that citizens from the six countries surveyed were not sure how to distinguish between...
Recolight, the leading WEEE scheme for the UK lighting industry, has collated data to estimate the possible scale of WEEE non-compliance through some online retailers. The Recolight analysis suggests that LED lamps which do not comply with WEEE, sold through some online multi-seller retailers, could...
Delegates from 18 lighting WEEE compliance schemes and their lighting producer board members met at the second EucoLight Conference in Bratislava to discuss and share insight into challenges faced with the WEEE lighting. Mr. Marián Stryček, WEEE expert at the Ministry of the Environment of the...