The WEEE Regulations are changing – more products are coming into scope This means that: November 2018 Producers who up to now have been exempt must join a WEEE Compliance scheme. January 2019 Producers of household luminairs and lighting accessories will need to start reporting to their WEEE...
Open scope on brief The definitive lighting industry guide to household luminaire and WEEE open scope 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...
Recolight has been raising awareness of the increasing number of online marketplaces failing to comply with the WEEE Regulations for some time. Such non-compliant organisations are referred to as Free Riders, because they are not paying their share of recycling costs. This is a problem for...
Recolight will be at RWM in September to talk to you about all the WEEE recycling services we now offer. With Recolight lamp recycling is free. This is because we operate as a non-profit WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry. We are funded by our...
The EPR Club discussed how to tackle online freeriding at a debate on 18 June in Brussels. It was hosted by EucoLight, EXPRA and the WEEE Forum , representing three important product streams under EPR. Round the table were representatives from EPR organisations, the European Commission, and...
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regimes are in place to make producers of certain products responsible for the costs of collecting, treating, and recycling those products at the end of life. EPR currently covers vehicles, packaging, electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries. A new UK focus on resources...
Recolight’s tender process is designed to achieve openness and fairness, consistent with good commercial outcomes. There are separate documented processes for both logistics and treatment tenders which detail all steps taken. A fair tender process acting on feedback Our logistics and treatment tender outcomes are determined by...
2002 Introduction of EU WEEE Directive 2007 Directive transposed into UK WEEE Regulations - It was all about fluorescent lamps 2010 Integrated LED luminaires start to appear- retail sector and hospitality early adopters 2012 LEDs included in scope of recast WEEE directive 2014 LED is a huge lighting industry success story: Start of mass...
A circular approach seeks to minimise both the quantity of virgin raw materials needed and the quantity of waste produced. To achieve this, products, their components, and the materials from which they are made, need to be kept in use and circulation longer by manufacturers and...
Delegates from 18 lighting WEEE compliance schemes and their lighting producer board members come together for the third EucoLight Conference in April. On the agenda is the challenge of LED recycling. The conference is hosted by LightRec, the Dutch Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS) for Lighting. LEDs...