One Click LCA partners with Recolight to power embodied carbon transparency in UK lighting industry

UK, September 3, 2024 — One Click LCA, a leading provider of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declaration (EPD) software, today announces a strategic reseller partnership with Recolight, the operator of one of the UK’s largest Reuse and Recycling Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance schemes. The partnership follows the launch of One Click LCA’s Luminaires EPD Generator, a tool to streamline the creation of EPDs for lighting products.

“This collaboration with Recolight highlights our commitment to decarbonising the lighting industry. Recolight’s extensive network of luminaire manufacturers will benefit from combined access to world-leading LCA and EPD software, and support and consulting to enable them on their decarbonisation journey.”

- Panu Pasanen, Founder and CEO at One Click LCA

The strategic partnership will harness the industry-leading position of both One Click LCA and Recolight, to offer expertise, guidance, and world-leading LCA and EPD technology to the lighting industry. By generating LCAs and EPDs, lighting manufacturers will better understand the carbon impact of their products and satisfy increasing specifier and client requirements for achieving green certifications like BREEAM, LEED, Net Zero, and more.

“An increasing number of specifiers and end-users are now demanding credible environmental metrics as part of their lighting procurement and specification. Those companies that move early will gain a competitive advantage. We are delighted that through our partnership with One Click LCA, we can provide access to industry leading LCA and EPD software that enhances embodied carbon transparency, and helps both specifiers and manufacturers move towards a low carbon future.”

Nigel Harvey, CEO at Recolight

 

Recolight is known for its commitment to reuse, the circular economy, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By partnering with One Click LCA, Recolight can offer its members and other industry stakeholders access to world-leading software — already used by several lighting manufacturers — that simplifies the process of creating accurate and credible LCAs and EPDs for their products.

Key benefits of the partnership:

• Simple EPD generation: One Click LCA's intuitive EPD software automates the process, helping lighting manufacturers to save time and resources.
• Market differentiation & benchmarking: EPDs will help lighting manufacturers stand out in a competitive market by showcasing their products' environmental performance.
• Meeting customer demand: With EPDs, lighting manufacturers demonstrate their commitment to reducing carbon, meet green procurement standards, and attract sustainability-focused customers.
• Expert guidance: Recolight and One Click LCA’s understanding of the lighting industry will provide support and guidance to companies helping them cut through the complexity of environmental metrics.

“It is great to see Recolight taking a lead on such an important issue. Properly calculating embodied carbon and other key environmental metrics is vital for our sector, as we help our customers move towards net zero.”

• Steve Meadows, Director at Recolight and Services & Operations Director at Signify

“The agreement with One Click LCA is a really positive step for Recolight and the lighting industry. It creates the ideal conditions to expand the use of LCAs and EPDs in our sector, making credible environmental performance data more widely available.”

• Stephen Bell, Services, Transformation & Compliance Director at Zumtobel and Recolight board member

“I am delighted that Recolight has taken this step. It builds upon Recolight’s success in encouraging action on the circular economy, through webinars, and the Circular Lighting Live and Net Zero Lighting conferences.”

• Andrew Clark, Director at Recolight and Financial Controller at Feilo Sylvania

“The agreement between Recolight and One Click LCA will help Recolight members, and other lighting companies, to ensure they are not left behind as the sector moves forward with sustainability initiatives and objectives”

• Steven Reed, Director at Recolight and Commercial Manager at Trilux Lighting

Media inquiries:

One Click LCA: Laura Drury, Sustainability Communications, UK and Ireland, One Click LCA

Email: laura.drury@oneclicklca.com

Recolight: Suzanne Castine, Marketing Manager, Recolight

Email: suzanne.castine@recolight.co.uk

About One Click LCA

One Click LCA is the world-leading end-to-end sustainability platform for construction and manufacturing. The software platform decarbonises and drives sustainability across the construction value chain with scientific, easy-to-use, automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs) to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation projects and products. The platform also allows assessment of circularity, life-cycle cost, and biodiversity. One Click LCA is used in 170+ countries, including by blue-chip enterprises like Skanska, WSP, Foster+Partners, LafargeHolcim, ArcelorMittal, Arcadis, ARUP, Geberit, and Saint-Gobain, among others. It offers a unique global database with +250,000 LCA datasets; supports +80 standards and certifications, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB and other national regulations; and seamlessly integrates with +20 of the most widely used BIM software tools, including Autodesk Revit®, Tekla Structures® and Bentley iTwin®. One Click LCA was founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2001, with a team of +200 people on all continents. Learn more at: www.oneclicklca.com

About Recolight

Recolight is the leading UK WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, taking on responsibility for its members’ WEEE compliance, giving their customers access to the UK’s most comprehensive free lamp collection and recycling service, and helping to ensure that as many lamps as possible are kept out of landfill.

Recolight’s comprehensive offering makes it the preferred WEEE scheme for the lighting industry, setting the standard for the sector. It is the only WEEE compliance scheme in the UK to provide integrated Lamp and Luminaire collection and recycling. It has the biggest UK-wide network of collection points for all WEEE lighting. As a result, since its founding in 2007, Recolight has funded the recycling of over 370 million lamps, LEDs and luminaires, more than all other UK WEEE schemes put together.

Recycling isn’t always the best solution, Recolight go beyond recycling.

Working with the lighting industry, Recolight offer support and services to help their Producer Members transition to a Circular Economy. With a Re-Use Service, workshops, webinars, Circular Lighting report, and Circular Lighting Live, Recolight is the Compliance Scheme that gives much more.The strategic partnership will harness the industry-leading position of both One Click LCA and Recolight, to offer expertise, guidance, and world-leading LCA and EPD technology to the lighting industry. By generating LCAs and EPDs, lighting manufacturers will better understand the carbon impact of their products and satisfy increasing specifier and client requirements for achieving green certifications like BREEAM, LEED, Net Zero, and more. Visit the Recolight website www.recolight.co.uk or follow Recolight on LinkedIn