Recolight celebrates milestone of 150 members

Recolight, the leading UK WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, has announced the signing of its 150th producer member. 17 companies have now joined the scheme since the beginning of the year. Adrian Willis, Membership Development Manager commented on the news “Our growing membership allows us...

Recolight celebrates a milestone 200 million lamps recycled

Recolight celebrates a milestone 200 million lamps recycled

Recolight, the leading WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, has reached a major milestone, its Members having funded the recycling of 200 million lamps, luminaires and LEDs since 2007. This is enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall seven times. Recolight is unique amongst WEEE...

Recolight is selected as finalist for national recycling award

Recolight selected as finalist for the National Recycling Awards

Recolight is delighted to be selected as a finalist for the MRW National Recycling Awards 2015.  Recolight is one of eight shortlisted companies in the Resource Management Business of the Year category. The National Recycling Awards 2015 recognise and highlight the excellence and innovation present throughout the recycling...

Recolight’s CEO to speak at LuxLive 2014 on new WEEE legislation

Nigel Harvey, CEO of Recolight, the leading UK WEEE compliance scheme for lamps, will be speaking at LuxLive 2014, discussing the key changes and consequences of the new Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment regulations. The presentation will take place at Tech Theatre Two at 1.00pm...

WEEE: The JTA Compliance Fee Mechanism

The following press release has been issued by the JTA. The Joint Trade Associations (JTA) has revealed further details of the mechanism it has proposed to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to calculate the WEEE compliance fee. The JTA has provided BIS with a...

Industry calls on all lamp producers to offer free lamp recycling

Industry calls on all lamp producers to offer free lamp recycling

A survey commissioned by Recolight has shown that 95.1 per cent of respondents think that all lamp producers should be required to offer free recycling. Recolight, the leading WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, partnered with Voltimum to assess industry opinions on lamp recycling. There...

Delegated User Arrangements

Recolight currently provides those UK lamp recyclers who chose to respond to a tender in 2012, with a capped subsidy for waste lamps they collect from their own customers.  This subsidy is known as Delegated User Arrangements, or DUA.  From 1 January 2015, the Recolight...

Recolight welcomes Government consultation on ‘dual use’ products

This week the Government announced a short consultation to amend the way the business WEEE system works.  The Government intends to change the classification of products sold to businesses that can be used both by consumers and businesses.  These so called “dual use” products will now...

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