A range of luminaires – many barely used – are being offered free to industry professionals in a pioneering reuse initiative.
The lights are the fruit of a pilot project from the fit-out industry’s representative body, Finishes and Interiors Sector, designed to reduce the environmental impact of the sector and to cut embodied carbon emissions and waste from strip-out projects.
The products on offer mostly come from Cat A office fit-outs which have been stripped out when the tenants moved in.
They include 250 edge-lit suspended luminaires, 80 round feature pendants, 26 spotlights, 55 linear fittings and five ring pendants. All are LED.
The long edge-lit suspended luminaires and the round feature pendants are currently in storage. They come from the refurbishment of a four-year-old Cat A space that was never occupied. A reconditioning and re-warranty service is available from the original manufacturer Whitecroft.
The spotlights – Holon 60s from Kreon – are also from this project. They are mounted pendant style with a black cylindrical casing and are DALI dimmable. They are currently attached to metal mounts but can be removed from these and either hung or mounted on another kind of fixing.
The linear luminaires are less than two years old. Fifty are white (in 5 to 8m lengths, two are 18 and 24m) and five are black (with integral PIR, 2 emergency). The original manufacturer Orlight says it’s able to recondition and re-warranty the luminaires.
The ring pendants come in two diameters, 600mm (four available) and 1, 200mm (one available). They’re seven years old and worth £290 and £550 respectively. A reconditioning is available from the original manufacturer.
‘I’m really excited about this project,’ FIS chief Iain Mcilwee told the Circular Lighting Report. ‘We talk a lot about circularity, but sometimes I worry the hot air is contributing to climate change! This is a concerted effort to actually do something material, to learn as a collective and start, I hope, to catalyse change.
‘We simply can’t carry on generating waste like we do – urban mining, reuse and circular thinking is essential in this.’
• If you are interested in these luminaires contact the Reuse Initiative Working Group at [email protected]
• Learn more about sustainable lighting at Circular Lighting Live 2025, Recolight’s flagship conference and exhibition, which takes place on Thursday 25 September 2025 at the Minster Building in the City of London. Free to specifiers, Circular Lighting Live 2025 will feature leading experts, specifiers and policy makers who will share their insights into forthcoming standards and legislation, emerging technologies and new business models. More info: www.circularlighting.live
