Circular Components GREENLIGHT ALLIANCE
The GreenLight Alliance takes a closer look at some of the manufacturers that are practicing what they preach when it comes circular approaches. Many recent GreenLight Alliance articles have deliberately focused on how to quantify green endeavours, how to compare them, how to monitor them or drive improvements. In this issue we dive into details and look at some examples of very specific innovations we find interesting, in the hope that they inspire end users, specifiers and other equipment manufacturers alike. We applaud such pioneering innovation and hope that it inspires more to follow.
Stoane Lighting
This series is curated by Dave Hollingsbee of Stoane Lighting, dave@mikestoanelighting.com
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Stoane Lighting products primarily utilise aluminium sourced within the UK. It generally has a minimum 78% recycled content. Traditionally any offcuts or swarf from Stoane Lighting’s in-house workshop would be sent to be recycled again. However, in recent years we have begun repurposing this waste to manufacture new components. This example is “Mushroom”. The convex ‘head’, supporting an array of downlighting LEDs, is now forged* in-house from workshop waste. At the end of life this component can be recycled once more. Mushroom will score well under TM65.2 Lighting, as the newly revised metric is able to better represent true embodied carbon, thanks to the introduction of more coefficients for materials used in luminaires. In this case, differentiating between virgin and recycled aluminium. *electric induction forge on a 100% renewable tariff. www.stoanelighting.com