ABOUT THE REUSE HUB
The Recolight Reuse Hub is a new lighting digital marketplace. An online platform to facilitate the donation of new and used lighting products and equipment. It is the first of its kind for the donation, reuse, and remanufacture of lighting products.
Currently, there are considerable volumes of new and used lighting products that are needlessly recycled when they could be reused. The Recolight Reuse Hub allows donors of such products to link up with potential recipients; companies that could use the donated products.
Who is the Reuse Hub for?
The Reuse Hub is open to any type of organisation, including manufacturers, remanufacturers, wholesalers, specifiers, end users, charities, and more. Lighting producers that are not yet Members of the Recolight compliance scheme may participate.
Companies can register as Donors, Recipients, and Remanufacturers.
Donors can offer both:
- unused, unsold lighting stock,
- and used but reusable lighting equipment that may be suitable for remanufacturing, including those from CAT A and fit outs.
The Reuse Hub is currently free of charge for Donors, Recipients, and Remanufacturers. It includes a template agreement between both parties, that clearly limits the liability of donors, to de-risk the process.
Why do we need a Reuse Hub?
“The reuse of reconditioned light fittings is starting to become mainstream. Major commercial real estate developers, their architects and design teams are beginning to either reuse luminaires from a retrofit project itself and, in an increasing number of cases, use luminaires from a completely different building.”
“This imaginative new thinking is leading to new business models and the growth of a vibrant remanufacturing sector in the lighting industry. Remanufacturers take used lights, upgrade them to the latest efficient LEDs and wireless controls and then – crucially – warranty them.”
Ray Molony, Editor, Circular Lighting Report
Recycling is not always the best solution
At Recolight, we recycle, but as we move towards a Circular Economy model, recycling is not always the best solution. Recolight is under a legal obligation to prioritise reuse over recycling, so we need to facilitate and encourage reuse. We hope the Reuse Hub will help avoid unnecessary recycling and ensure retention of more embedded carbon.