From the beginning of January 2019, household luminaires come into scope of the UK’s WEEE regulations. That means manufacturers, importers, and own branders of domestic light fittings will need to take various steps to comply. That includes putting the crossed wheelie bin symbol on the product...
Recolight, the leading UK WEEE compliance scheme for lighting, yesterday celebrated an eventful year for the industry at the scheme’s annual summer event. The introduction of dual use and new BIS targets for lamp recycling have come at the same time that Recolight’s membership has...
A luminaire recycling rate of just 0.6% The Government’s data shows that the recycling rate for business luminaires in 2012 was just 0.6%. What that means is that virtually all waste luminaires are either being collected through informal channels such as scrap dealers, or are going...
Recolight, the UK’s WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, will be launching a combined WEEE compliance service for luminaires and lamps at this year’s LuxLive exhibition, to reflect the market and regulatory changes taking place. Recolight are expanding their compliance offering to reflect the changing...
LuxLive 2013 At this year’s LuxLive exhibition, Recolight launched a combined WEEE compliance service for luminaires and lamps, to reflect the market and regulatory changes taking place and to increase the national collection rate for luminaires. LED luminaires As lamp and luminaire technologies are converging, luminaires incorporating integrated...