Top 10 sustainable lighting brands

Among sustainability professionals, B Corp is considered the gold standard of environmental certifications. It’s not easy to achieve: a business has to demonstrate high levels of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

The B Corp assessors look at diverse factors including raw materials, supply chain practices, employee benefits and charitable giving. Not only that, to achieve B Corp certification, a company must legally change their corporate governance structure to be accountable to all with an involvement in the business, including employees, suppliers and customers.

Applicants must achieve a minimum score in the challenging B Impact Assessment of 80 or above and then pass a risk review. Despite those high barriers, 10 lighting brands have made the cut and we celebrate them here.

Spark & Bell (Score 100.6)
Brighton-based Spark & Bell hand makes luminaires from locally and responsibly sourced parts and sustainable materials. It boasts its own in-house plastic recycling workshop where it reshapes plastic waste into lights. It also offers a 10-year-warranty, free repair service and an end-of-life scheme.

Shoplight (Score: 93.4)
This retail lighting specialist makes spotlights and downlights with housings made from bio-polymers. Its luminaires are also modular in design, allowing them to be repaired or upgraded easily. At the of their life, they can be returned to the company for a credit towards new bio-polymer products.

Trainspotters (Score 90.6)
Trainspotters, another specialist in restoring vintage industrial lights, often from the former Eastern Bloc, says its motto is ‘buy once buy well’. Recently it has made a formal commitment to give 2 per cent of its turnover to charity every year.

Tala (Score 89.7)
Tala says that the materials it uses for lamps and luminaires is driven by quality and longevity, so all its lamps are made from borosilicate glass not plastic. The company is also carbon neutral on all inbound shipments and has funded the planting of over 130,000 trees internationally.

House Of (Score 89.6)
Hackney-based houseof makes on-trend pendants, wall lights and freestanding luminaires in bright colours. The company says it has achieved 100 per cent climate neutrality in its scope 1 and 2, mainly due to offsetting programmes. All packing is recyclable.

White Light (Score 88.8)
Entertainment to architectural lighting supplier White Light – officially known as d&b solutions UK – has been certified since 2022. It’s also an ISO 14001 accredited company and an Albert Supplier in the film and TV industry. It focuses on its efforts on energy, water, travel and waste.

Stoane Lighting (Score: 87.6)
Long an environmental pioneer, Stoane Lighting won both a coveted platinum and green Build Back Better Award for its ReNew division, which repairs and upgrades its luminaires to give them a second life. As well as five-year warranty, the brand has a 25-year ‘duty of care’ for its products.

Skinflint (Score 82.6)
Skinflint salvages luminaires from the 1920s to 1970s, typically robust industrial fittings and glassware such as pendants. So far the company has restored over 50,000 lights and it promises to take them back in exchange for a credit under its ‘Full Circle’ buy-back pledge, an industry first..

Phos (Score 80.7)
Phos says that nearly all of its raw materials and components are produced within 50 miles of its factory in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Its luminaires are designed to be modular, so that components can be replaced, repair or recycled as appropriate. The firm also recycles incoming packaging.

Anglepoise (Score 80.1)
The manufacturer of the iconic spring-balanced task light since 1932 says that all its products are designed for longevity.Its luminaires have a lifetime guarantee and the company even re-engineers spare parts from discontinued designs to keep them in service.

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