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CFL recycling scheme launched
03/09/10
Edited by Bob Witham.A lighting industry body has unveiled a new scheme to improve recycling services for compact florescent lamps (CFLs).
Recolight aims to increase the number of facilities available to deal with CFLs, which are devices designed to boost energy efficiency.
In partnership with the Community Bulb Recycling Alliance, the organisation is looking to reduce the amount of lamps making it to landfill sites, particularly as they contain mercury - a hazardous waste.
Over the last two years, Recolight has funded the collection and recycling of more than 50 million gas discharge lamps in a similar effort to lower the amount of mercury being dumped.
Nigel Harvey, chief executive of Recolight, told BusinessGreen that the demand for recycling CFLs will begin to grow from 2014 onwards.
"Light recycling is not a big issue at the moment as demand for energy efficient lights has been relatively recent and they last around six years," he said.
