Recolight is a founder member of EucoLight, a new European trade association focused on WEEE in the lighting sector. EucoLight already has members from 15 different Member States right across the EU. The organisation has been created to give a voice to lighting WEEE compliance...
The Government has consulted on the national targets for household WEEE recycling, including the target for waste lamp recycling. In 2014, the national target was 830 tonnes. However, in its consultation, the Government has proposed increasing the target in 2015 to 2680 tonnes. This is...
2013 was an important year for Recolight and for the lighting industry, which saw the recast of the WEEE Directive and its transposition into law through the revised WEEE Regulations. I wanted to highlight some of the most exciting developments, which came towards the end...
The WEEE regulations 2013 have now been laid before parliament. As expected, they contain some important changes: LED light sources (which include LED lamps and LED luminaires) are put in the same category as gas discharge lamps. This will avoid the risk of an orphan waste...
Recolight supports the WEEE Directive The recast of the WEEE directive was at long last published in the Official Journal this month. It has taken over four years to prepare. Recolight strongly supports many of the changes it introduces - particularly the increased member state collection targets. ...
A final version of the text of the WEEE directive was agreed at a meeting of the Council, Parliament and Commission on 20th December. Recolight has welcomed the text which includes a number of compromise positions. BIS have indicated that the new directive should enter...
The process of "recasting" the WEEE Directive is now well into its second reading. There are three distinct groups involved in the process - the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers (composed of representatives of all the Member States) and the European Commission. There are...
I have been paying close attention to the twists and turns in the recast of the WEEE Directive with particular interest. Over two years ago, the first proposals to recast the WEEE Directive were made. A firm commitment to the changes put forward has still...
Recolight has welcomed many of the recommendations made by Karl-Heinz Florenz MEP in his report to the European Parliament on the recast of the WEEE Directive. Florenz is the Rapporteur of the European Parliament's Temporary Committee on Climate Change. The report includes several key recommendations which,...