open scope and the WEEE regulations

The WEEE Regulations have got bigger!

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...

Trump to protect ‘freedom to choose light bulbs’

Trump signs order to protect ‘freedom to choose light bulbs’

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order which ‘safeguards the American people’s freedom to choose light bulbs’. The order, dubbed ‘Unleashing American Energy’, is designed to remove ‘burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations  [that] have impeded the development of [natural] resources’. Its headline-grabbing action is the removal...

Lights earmarked for reuse by Materials Index

Lights earmarked for reuse in London project

A specialist materials cataloguer has earmarked the lighting at a London project for reuse. The pendants, downlights and other luminaires at 2 Pancras Square in King’s Cross have been recorded by Material Index prior to an interior strip-out ahead of a refurbishment. Each light is prominently labelled...

NHS to decarbonise its lights

NHS unveils plan to decarbonise lighting

The National Health Service has unveiled an ambitious plan to decarbonise its lighting and other services over the next 15 years. The organisation, which has a goal of achieving net zero by 2040, has through its Shared Business Services arm published its Decarbonisation of Estates framework agreement. This...

Hedron 3-D printed luminaire by Markus Projects

Striking 3D printed pendant is made from bioplastic

A striking 3D-printed pendant light, made from bioplastic, has been acclaimed by design critics. The creators of the Hedron chandelier say they have drawn inspiration from nature, with hexagonal geometry and renewable bioplastic material. The shade is an array of tapered cell walls, precisely angled to bounce...

Scotiabank House

Lighting firm gives refurbed Cat A fittings to charity

Scottish company Blackmoon Lighting has set up a scheme in which luminaires removed from a Cat A fit-out are refurbished and donated to charities. The firm, which is based in Loanhead outside Edinburgh, even gives the fittings a five-year warranty. Blackmoon says it is often engaged in...

Sir Henry, New York

UK firm reuses vintage lights in New York bar

British firm Skinflint has supplied a range of pre-used vintage luminaires to a bar in New York, The Cornwall-based reconditioner of industrial and decorative lights provided Sir Henry’s bar on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan with products salvaged from the Czech Republic. The owners of the bar say...

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