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Recolight is the UK’s compliance scheme for lighting waste recycling and sustainability. It’s a not-for-profit organisation.
It has just announced the introduction of a new Used Luminaire Certification service. It’s intended to encourage and support the reuse of lighting products.
How does the Certification service work?
Recolight is all about sustainability and it aims to help the lighting industry reduce its carbon impact. Certification helps developers, engineers, and lighting designers specify second-life light fittings. It reduces unnecessary waste by encouraging re-use of relatively new units.
The Used Luminaire Certificate includes an independent opinion on the likely remaining burn hours and lifetime of re-used fittings. It also provides an estimate of how reusing the fitting will reduce its carbon impact throughout its lifecycle. However, this doesn’t replace warranties or CE and UKCA markings provided by manufacturers and companies which recondition units.
Why is a Certification scheme needed?
Building owners, suppliers and installers have all shown interest in reusing light fittings. With around 40% of global carbon emissions attributed to our built environment, reducing lighting carbon emissions is important.
Certification can remove barriers to reuse of light fittings and encourage their wider adoption. It also demonstrates how companies and the public sector have taken steps to reduce their environmental impact. Overall, it offers a practical way to support large-scale reuse, making second-life lighting mainstream.
What’s next?
Recolight will test the Certification service as part of several major projects in the coming months. If successful it will soon roll out across the country.
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