RELIGHT
Sustainable Recycling of Lighting Products
| Coordinatore | C-TECH INNOVATION LIMITED
Organization address
address: Capenhurst Technology Park contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 1˙250˙556 € |
| EC contributo | 938˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2012 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-11-01 - 2014-10-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
C-TECH INNOVATION LIMITED
Organization address
address: Capenhurst Technology Park contact info |
UK (CHESTER) | coordinator | 65˙041.00 |
| 2 |
MRT SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL AB
Organization address
address: LUMAVAGEN 1 contact info |
SE (KARLSKRONA) | participant | 372˙745.80 |
| 3 |
WISER RECYCLING LTD
Organization address
address: Bridge Street 11 Manor Mews contact info |
UK (St Ives) | participant | 205˙105.20 |
| 4 |
SAIREM SOCIETE POUR L APPLICATION INDUSTRIELLE DE LA RECHERCHE EN ELECTRONIQUE ET MICRO ONDES SAS*SAIREM
Organization address
address: PORTE DU GRAND LYON 12 contact info |
FR (NEYRON MIRIBEL) | participant | 154˙436.00 |
| 5 |
DISMECO SRL
Organization address
address: VIA LAMA DI RENO 32 contact info |
IT (MARZABOTTO) | participant | 119˙789.00 |
| 6 | STIFTELSEN CHALMERS INDUSTRITEKNIK | SE | participant | 20˙883.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The RELIGHT project seeks to test and develop novel technologies in the niche application of CFL recycling, to determine a cost effective means of recovering high value materials from the product. There is not only a strong market force from RELIGHT SME participants point of view to achieve cleaner fractions; it is also a requirement of the legislation. It is the view of the participants that to achieve only recycling of lamps to low value outlets is not ambitious, and that the industry should be seeking to recover valuable materials back to a high value use. These issues are prerequisite for the lamp recycling industry.'
Descrizione progetto (Article)
CFLs were designed to replace the traditional incandescent light bulb. However, they contain toxic mercury, which makes their disposal and the recycling of their constituent materials more complicated. Therefore, new technologies must be developed to deal with the increasingly large volumes of CFL waste. They are also required to ensure compliance with the European Commission Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
The 'Sustainable recycling of lighting products' (http://www.relightproject.eu (RELIGHT)) project was established to ascertain a cost-effective way of recovering high-value materials from discarded CFLs. This will involve a major change and improvement in the separation and decontamination of waste compared to currently existing technologies. The consortium will also consider applying the process to the light-emitting diode (LED) market, which is experiencing rapid growth.
Project partners are investigating the type and cost of process equipment needed for turning CFL waste into clean glass, plastic, metal and phosphor powder. The aim is to provide a cost-efficient, low-throughput technology that can recover mercury from phosphor powder, resulting in a non-hazardous powder that can be reused.
Phosphor powder contains a number of valuable rare earth metals. Therefore, the RELIGHT process will also better prepare the powder for sale to recovery facilities, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to receive a better price.
An important advantage of this approach is that all materials will be managed on one site, thereby minimising transport to specialist mercury recovery facilities. It will also enable smaller regional facilities to be run cost-effectively, replacing the vast logistics currently employed in transporting end-of-life lamps to remote recycling facilities.
The RELIGHT project will help ensure adherence to the WEEE Directive requirements and remove the growing volume of CFLs from the European waste stream. It will also provide a significant business opportunity for participating SMEs as the potential global market for the technology is enormous.