The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published a report into the UK’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling system. The report is particularly critical of the lack of regulation of online marketplaces, and makes several key recommendations: Ambitious long-term targets for collection, re-use and...
A series of Recolight webinars looking at lighting and the circular economy have heard from experts across the lighting industry. They covered legislation for lighting, circular economy principles implemented in product design by manufactures, and challenged the industry to be more sustainable. These webinars just scratched...
Objective is to investigate feasibility of recovering Gallium from waste LED lamps LED chips separated, and then subject to ionic solvents Nine month project funded by Innovate UK Recolight are one of six partners A consortium of six companies and institutions has been formed to...
The next online Recolight panel discussion is scheduled for 6 November at 11:00. This discussion follows on from the three Lighting & the Circular Economy webinars hosted by Recolight this year. The discussion will tackle a key issue for sustainability in the lighting sector: Is the...
Recolight, the UK’s leading lighting WEEE compliance scheme has announced a major milestone having funded the recycling of a third of a billion fluorescent & LED lamps and luminaires since the WEEE regulations were implemented in 2007. This is enough waste to fill the Royal...
The third webinar in the Recolight Lighting & the Circular Economy series was held on 15 September. It continued the conversation by discussing the next steps required for the lighting industry to move towards a Circular Economy. Introducing the session, Ray Molony said, “Over the past...
The third Recolight webinar in the Lighting & the Circular Economy series is scheduled for 15 September at 11:00. It will look at the next steps the lighting industry needs to take to move towards a Circular Economy. This will follow on from the presentations and discussions...
At a hearing of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), Amazon’s worldwide Director of Environmental Affairs was challenged over the high level of non-compliant product sold through their site. The committee is currently holding an enquiry into the operation of the UK’s WEEE system, and asked Amazon...
Industry experts in sustainability and product design are set to gather to discuss how the lighting sector can reduce its environmental impact. The second Circular Economy webinar organised by Recolight will take place on 14 July at 11:00 to 12:30. Speakers will challenge the industry to...
The European WEEE Registers Network (EWRN) this week released a report that strongly condemns online marketplaces for the high level of WEEE non-compliance. The EWRN is an independent network of governmental organisations, such as the EA in England, that maintain official registers of WEEE compliant companies...