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Suite 265 Airport House,
Purley Way,
Croydon,
Surrey,
CR0 0XZ,
United Kingdom

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Compliance

Recolight is the UK’s leading WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry.

We take on responsibility for our Members’ compliance; giving their customers’ access to the UK’s most comprehensive free GDL, LED, luminaire, and street lantern recycling service.

Collections

Recolight offer free lamp collections and recycling for business lamps covered by the WEEE Regulations. This service is free because we operate as a non-profit organisation, funded by our Members, the lighting industry. We also offer recycling services for luminaires, batteries and electrical items.

Drop Off Network

Find your nearest drop-off point for business and consumer waste lamps.

PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION BELOW THE MAP IN THE LINK PROVIDED

This explains:

The FOUR different types of collection points.
The type of lighting you can take to each point.
The paper work needed for business lamps and fittings.

Circular Economy

For several years, Recolight has worked with the lighting industry to drive the adoption of circular economy principles. During 2022, the company has launched key initiatives to provide information, practical guidance, and services to help companies transition to a circular economy.

Re-Use Service

The need to no longer see luminaires as a single life product has been widely discussed in the Recolight Webinar series. 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 re-use over recycling, so we need to facilitate and encourage re-use.

Recolight has identified two opportunities for the lighting industry which will help to fulfil the obligation of:

Avoiding waste
Reducing recycling
Stimulating reuse
Responding to the climate emergency

Managing Your Waste

It is illegal for a business to incorrectly dispose of hazardous waste, or to hand it to a contractor which is not authorised to handle it. Electrical contractors and their customers have a duty of care to make sure their waste is disposed of correctly. This applies to all who:

Produce or store waste.
Collect and transport waste.
Receive waste for recycling or disposal.

Light fittings must have lamps and batteries removed, and all three waste streams sored in separate containers. Incorrect disposal of hazardous waste could land contractors − and their customers − with prosecution, legal costs, reputational damage − and a fine.

Waste must be handed on to an organisation that is authorised to receive that waste. If the contractor disposes of that waste in an illegal fashion, both they, and their customer could be subject to enforcement action by the Environment Agency.

WEEE Compliance for Lighting

WEEE Recycling

Recolight offer a FREE recycling service for waste lamps, in compliance with the WEEE regulations. This is a FREE service because we are funded by our Members, the lighting industry, and operate as a not for profit WEEE Compliance Scheme.

The free recycling service is for Recolight Producer Members, their customers, and end users.

We collect all lighting in scope of the WEEE regulations. To date Recolight has recycled over 330 million lamps. This is more WEEE lighting than all UK Compliance schemes combined.

Recolight recycle more than lamps, giving you a complete WEEE service.
Batteries − not classified as WEEE, but classed as hazardous waste and must be recycled responsibly.

All electrical waste covered by the WEEE Regulations.

FREE Luminaire recycling for Recolight Producer Members’ non-household obligated* waste.

Recolight webinars

Circular Lighting Live, Webinars, Training
If we consider a transition to a circular economy, it is very easy to feel overwhelmed at the scale of the task ahead of us, It would be easy to feel a sense of paralysis, where we ‘cannot see the wood for the trees’.
However, there are steps we can take immediately that will have a big impact on our sustainable footprint and, if we all did a little, it would add up to a lot.

The UK’s first major event dedicated to sustainable lighting

Circular economy for Lighting

The climate crises presents a huge challenge to us all. Changes are needed at Governmental levels, but businesses can do a lot to make a difference.

One crucial change that is needed is to fully embrace and adopt Circular Economy principles.

Legislative changes and customer requirements are placing greater emphasis on lighting that is truly sustainable − products that are not just energy efficient, but which are also resource efficient. As a result, we need to keep products in use for longer, rather than simply discarding them, or needlessly recycling them.

At Recolight, we recycle, but recycling is not always the best solution as we move towards a Circular Economy model.

Drop off network for lamp recycling

Find your nearest drop-off point for business and consumer waste lamps.

Lighting product design for a Circular Economy

Lighting Product Design for a Circular Economy.

A series of CPD accredited workshops.
Delegates are invited to bring a fitting for review by attendees, to consider how it might be adapted for greater circularity.

About us

Recolight Ltd offers WEEE compliance & recycling for all WEEE lighting.

We are the UK’s leading specialist WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry.

We were formed by the UK lighting industry in 2005 firstly for the function of managing a Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Compliance Scheme for lamp manufacturers in the UK.

Our operation model is based upon one defined by the European Lamp Companies Federation (ELC) - a European Trade Association for lamp producers - although the application is different depending on the country, reflecting the contrasting national employments of the WEEE Directive EC2002/94.
The WEEE Regulations need manufacturers of EEE and their compliance schemes to promote and put systems in place for the handling - including recycling - of separately collected WEEE.

We received scheme endorsement on 21 February 2007 and started operating live on 2 July 2007.

Through us, the lighting manufacturing industry alone has been gathering and recycling more WEEE products than any other commercial region.