RECYCLING FOR WHOLESALERS

Recolight lamp recycling for wholesalers

Free lamp recycling for your customers

When you sign up as a Recolight Collection Point, you can choose to be added to our collection point map:

  • offering a free lamp recycling service to your customers
  • helping to advertise your business to new customers.


Benefits of advertising your FREE lamp recycling service

Recolight RB19 lamp container - free collections and free recyclingMany of the wholesalers with an open collection point in our network have experienced an increase in business, especially with customers buying products to replace that which is being recycled.

  • Showing that you are offering a service that helps local businesses and consumers deal with waste lamps may encourage those businesses to come back to you to buy more lamps. It may also be unique in your local area.
  • Offering additional services and adding customer value are key for businesses looking to identify ways of retaining their customer base whilst attracting new ones.
  • Demonstrating that your business is taking its environmental responsibilities seriously is an important way of attracting new business, and companies that can better help their customers meet their own environmental goals will have an edge over the competition.

Additional services to offer your customers

One off collections

If you have a customer planning a building relamp we provide an ad-hoc collection service for quantities over 1000 lamps: short term lease of RB19 container, free collections, free recycling.

Complete an application form

Your regular customers

If your customers collect large quantities of waste lamps, to save them the hassle of bringing these back to you, we could set them up as a Recolight collection point. If they collect 1000 lamps every three months the container is free, if less than that, we have a lease option.

Battery and Electrical items

Operating as a not for profit organisation, we can offer a recycling service for other electricals covered by the  WEEE Regulations – and batteries too – at a competitive cost.

This service could be passed on to your customers.

Collection Point logo

Recolight collection point logo

We want you to celebrate the success of your collection point and have a collection point logo for you to use to highlight your WEEE compliance credentials.

The logo also demonstrates to new and current customers that you are part of the UK’s largest and most successful WEEE recycling network.

Contact us for print and digital formats of the badge.

Reducing red tape for Wholesalers and Contractors

An Environment Agency Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) 283 dated 11 September 2023 states that:

  • Customers dropping business waste off at wholesaler sites will not be challenged if they do not supply a Waste Transfer Note, or,
  • in the case of hazardous waste like waste electricals and lamps, a Hazardous Waste Consignment Note.
WEEE Regulations (300 × 200px) (6)

The RPS does not change the law. Instead it is simply means that no enforcement action will be taken against those who do not comply with it.

  • The wholesaler collection points must comply with all other relevant waste related legislation.
  • The businesses and contractors should only drop off waste that has arisen as a result of their own commercial activities.
  • And the wholesalers must not charge their customers for dropping off the waste.

This is applies to England only.

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