Recolight has announced new CO2 emission reports to help lighting producers, and their customers to monitor and reduce the carbon footprint associated with their waste lamp and luminaire collections. This initiative provides the lighting industry with detailed assessments of the carbon emissions associated with every lighting waste collection managed by Recolight.
To deliver these reports, Recolight has enhanced its IT systems to automatically monitor the transport carbon emissions of all waste lamp and luminaire movements. The reports summarise the transport and treatment emissions of each collection transaction and also include practical guidance on how to reduce the emissions of future collections.
The Recolight system enhancements use data regarding collection vehicle emissions, weight of waste collected, and distance travelled, and incorporate DEFRA and greenhouse gas protocol methodologies. Reports are available free of charge to Recolight WEEE compliance scheme members.
Commenting on the announcement, Recolight CEO Nigel Harvey said
“I am delighted that we are now able to provide such detailed information. The first step for any organisation in reducing its carbon emissions, is to measure them. This data helps them do just that – and also gives key recommendations on how to reduce the emissions associated with WEEE collections. As an organisation, we are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our operations, and by providing our members with this information, we can work together to achieve real change.”
Recolight Customer Services Manager Lyndsey Tweddle added
“This development is a natural progression of other emissions reduction changes we have implemented, including limiting short‑notice collections, better container utilisation, coordinated logistics, and the provision of multiple containers to remote or high‑volume sites. We also nominate a monthly Carbon Reduction Champion to recognise collection partners who achieve the highest container fill weights each month across the Recolight network. By maximising the weight of each lamp container, partners significantly reduce the number of collections required, and therefore the transport emissions generated.”
Recolight Compliance Scheme Members can request emissions reports associated with any collection transaction by emailing [email protected] – with Carbon Impact Report as your email title.
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About Recolight
Recolight is the leading UK WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, taking on responsibility for its members’ WEEE compliance, giving their customers access to the UK’s most comprehensive free lamp collection and recycling service, and helping to ensure that as many lamps as possible are kept out of landfill.
Recolight’s comprehensive offering makes it the preferred WEEE scheme for the lighting industry, setting the standard for the sector. It is the only WEEE compliance scheme in the UK to provide integrated Lamp and Luminaire collection and recycling. It has the biggest UK-wide network of collection points for all WEEE lighting. As a result, since its founding in 2007, Recolight has funded the recycling of over 390 million lamps, LEDs and luminaires, more than all other UK WEEE schemes put together.
Recycling isn’t always the best solution, Recolight go beyond recycling.
Working with the lighting industry, Recolight offer support and services to help their Producer Members transition to a Circular Economy. With a Reuse Service, workshops, webinars, Circular Lighting report, Circular Lighting Live, LCA service and carbon assessment, Recolight is the Compliance Scheme that gives much more.
