Recolight: welcomes Environmental Audit Committee WEEE report recommendations for online marketplaces
Recolight welcomes environmental audit committee WEEE report recommendations for online marketplaces The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published a […]
Recolight: Recovering Gallium from waste LEDs
Recolight reports: a Research project has been launched to recover Gallium from waste LED lamps . A consortium of six […]
Circular Economy: defining ‘end of life’
The old mind-set of make+use+throw away says quite clearly what ‘end of life’ means. It says that, for whatever reason, […]
Recolight: End-of-Life Luminaires: a panel discussion
. The discussion continues around the question of what to do with luminaires once they are no longer required. Recolight’s […]
Spare parts: where the Circular Economy will fail
Much of the conversation that’s going on around the subject of the Circular Economy is focused on what happens when […]
Recolight: Lighting’s replaceable future – an online panel discussion
The next online Recolight panel discussion is scheduled for 6 November at 11:00. This discussion follows on from the three […]
Slavery in UK construction: and it involves you and me
.With 40.3 million victims in forced labour estimated by the Global Slavery Index, and an estimated 136,000 victims in the UK […]
Recolight: Lighting & the Circular Economy webinar – next steps for the Lighting Industry
The third Recolight webinar in the Lighting & the Circular Economy series will look at the next steps required for the lighting […]
UK to have a new refinery to extract precious metals from e-waste
We’re talking about designing luminaires for a Circular Economy. While we’re at it, it’s important to remember that there will […]
The Circular Economy: clearing plastics from the ocean . . . need to do better, says report.
For those paying attention, you may have noticed that The Light Review has been giving time and space to the […]
CIBSE Guide L: Sustainability. A review
Do you remember the first site meeting you attended? The voice in your head whinging: “I’ve come all this way […]
UN Report says that $10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste.
Tiny amounts of precious metals are used in electronic circuitry, and generally considered not to be cost-effective to recover. But […]