The WEEE Regulations have applied to a closed scope of products since 2007. Unless a product was listed in the fourteen categories, then they were out of scope. A specific exclusion meant that household luminaires were also out of scope. In January 2019, The Regulations moved...
After two years of postponement, 60 delegates from 19 lighting WEEE compliance schemes have finally met for the EucoLight annual conference in Leuven hosted by the Belgian EucoLight member Recupel. This year, the conference was also available online for the members who could not make...
Recolight announce Circular Lighting Live, the UK’s first major in person event dedicated to sustainable lighting. It will take place on 22 September, at the Cavendish Centre, London. Established by Ray Molony, and Recolight, the lighting industry’s leading environmental compliance body, and supported by LightingEurope and...
A RAFT OF lighting manufacturers are now offering to purchase luminaires after use. The Austrian architectural luminaire manufacturer Georg Bechter Licht has become the latest to offer a buy back service. It will take back its System Dot 28 range, pictured, for €5 at the end...
A LIGHTING refurbishment project in the north of England has proved that by reusing the original luminaires, you can provide cost savings, quality improvements and environmental gains as well as better margins for the supplier. The track-and-spot lighting at the imposing Grade II listed Jesmond United...
Producers of lighting equipment have an opportunity to review their WEEE scheme at the end of each year. The WEEE regulations require producers to commit to membership of a scheme for a whole calendar year. But some of the WEEE schemes used by lighting producers...
Recolight’s first training workshop focusing on Lighting Product Design for a Circular Economy ran in London during April. The course was designed following feedback from the Recolight Circular Economy webinar series. We were told that the lighting industry need to fully understand the Circular Economy, and...
On 9 March, over 200 participants attended a webinar organised by EucoLight, the European Association of lighting WEEE compliance schemes. The webinar confirmed that five member states are now implementing national legislation to prevent WEEE non-compliance via online platforms. Speakers from France, Germany, Spain, Austria...
Recolight announce new series of workshops to help manufacturers embed circular economy principles in the design of lighting products. The one day in-person workshops will describe circular economy standards and specifications that companies can use to show the circularity of their products. They will also provide...
Recolight have confirmed dates for five new webinars in 2022, aimed at helping the lighting industry adopt circular economy principles. The webinars this year seek to move the focus from what needs to be done, to what’s actually being done now. Together with Ray Molony, who...
EucoLight, the European Association for Lighting WEEE Compliance Schemes, invites you to join their webinar EPR non-compliance through online marketplaces: the state of play on Wednesday 9 March - 10:30 – 13:00 CET Online free riding is a topic of high concern, well documented by the OECD and...