A worldwide elimination of mercury-containing lamps such as fluorescent moved closer after Africa threw its weight behind a ban. The Africa delegation of 39 countries to a global environmental treaty known as the Minamata Convention on Mercury has proposed an ambitious amendment that will effectively end...
Zumtobel’s first luminaire to be Cradle-to-Cradle certified is a new plug-and-play freestanding luminaire called Artelea. The company says that all aspects of the light have been designed with flexibility and circularity in mind, with the help of materials that are up to 80 per cent recyclable. It...
Some 20,000 luminaires have been reused in a major upgrade of the lighting at a professional training institute. Barcelona-based Lamp reconditioned the Fili luminaires which were installed at INACAP, National Institute of Professional Training, in Santiago, Chile. The company recovered the obsolete light sources – 54W and 28W T5...
The European Commission has launched a consultation on the Directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), including lighting equipment. The WEEE regulations were first adopted in 2002 to prevent or reduce its adverse impacts on the environment and human health. WEEE is one of the...
Signify, the industry’s biggest lighting company, has signed a deal to power its operations with wind power. The company teamed up with former owner Philips, brewer Heineken and Dutch chemical company Nobian to buy renewable energy from the huge Mutkalampi wind farm in Finland. The 10-year agreement...
UK lighting manufacturer LightGraphix has published TM65 and TM66 assessments and ratings for its 20 top-selling products. TM65, or Technical Memorandum 65, is a measure of the embedded carbon in a product devised by Cibse, while TM66 is a measure of a luminaire’s compatibility with the...
Office lights have been removed from a Cat A fit-out in a London office and reused in a craft college. Office design and fit-out firm Morgan Lovell asked lighting remanufacturer Silent Design to save the 300 linear metres of luminaires from a commercial office building on the...
Selux has unveiled a sophisticated technology for its luminaires which can tune the light distribution, colour and intensity according to an integral pre-programmed controller. It’s believed to be the first exterior light from a major brand to automatically adjust its light distribution during the evening and...
Bell Lighting has unveiled a fire-rated downlight manufactured to circular economy principles. The Firestay Sustainable Geo® modular downlight has a housing which is designed to remain in the ceiling for life, as any replacement of the light engine doesn’t require removal of the housing. The Geo-Mod® light...
A leading recycler of luminaires has spelled out how manufacturers can make their products easier to reprocess. Justin Greenaway, commercial manager of Kent-based SWEEEP Kuusakoski, one of the UK’s largest dedicated WEEE processing facilities, says there are simple measures light makers can do which would make...