The long anticipated government consultation on the new WEEE regulations has been announced. It includes 23 questions for respondents. Of those, over half are technical questions concerned with proposals for changing the current household WEEE system. Recolight is delighted that changes are proposed. The current system...
Nigel Harvey talks to Will Date from Let's Recycle about the forthcoming WEEE consultation Go to Let's Recycle for the full story...
The government has indicated that it is considering at least three alternatives to the current system for household recycling. We at Recolight warmly welcome the prospect of change. The current system is fundamentally flawed. It allows the holder of household waste to sell it, often at...
Benefits of free lamp recycling We recently carried out a survey of 121 of our 1,100 collection points to find out the level of satisfaction with our service, and we found some interesting results. The survey revealed that the majority of businesses were saving time and...
Recolight supports the WEEE Directive The recast of the WEEE directive was at long last published in the Official Journal this month. It has taken over four years to prepare. Recolight strongly supports many of the changes it introduces - particularly the increased member state collection targets. ...
Suzanne Castine, Marketing Manager at Recolight, reflects on the National Recycling Awards 2012. Recycling & waste management SME business of the year With the introduction of new categories, this year's awards promised to be full of high calibre entries. The award for Recycling and Waste Management SME...
The announcement from Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for DEFRA, that the government would be investigating options to reduce WEEE costs for Producers is very welcome. The problem she wants to tackle arises from the way the "Household obligation system" operates: The household obligation system...
The growth in the LED market LEDs have become big business in the last few years. Whilst not used extensively for domestic buildings, the growth in the number of LEDs being used in commercial and outdoor settings has been extraordinarily fast and they are now becoming...
Electrical contractors' attitudes to recycling In a survey conducted in 2010, Recolight found that recycling is something that electrical contractors take very seriously, with two-thirds (64%) saying that the safe disposal and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment is "totally embedded" within the culture of...
A final version of the text of the WEEE directive was agreed at a meeting of the Council, Parliament and Commission on 20th December. Recolight has welcomed the text which includes a number of compromise positions. BIS have indicated that the new directive should enter...