EucoLight welcomes Appliances Recycling SA from Greece as a new EucoLight member. With this new addition, the EucoLight family is now composed of 19 lighting WEEE compliance schemes and one affiliate.
Marc Guiraud, Secretary General of EucoLight, commented ‘We are delighted to welcome Appliances Recycling SA to EucoLight and to expand our membership to Greece. I am sure that Appliances Recycling SA will bring new valuable ideas to our organization and be a helpful contributor in our aim of making the circular economy a reality for lighting products’.
Marios Intzeler, Managing Director of Appliances Recycling SA added ‘We are highly honoured and pleased to be accepted as a member to Eucolight family and we would like to express our genuine intentions and commitment to work together with the association to fulfill its goals and objectives.”
Appliances Recycling SA is a take back scheme that organizes, operates and controls the collective system for the alternative management of the Waste of Electrical and Electronic Alternative Equipment (WEEE) in Greece. That includes coordinating the collection, transportation, temporary storage, separation and treatment of WEEE or/and their components. It has over 10000 WEEE Collection points throughout Greece and works with more than 35 transport companies.
Being trusted with the cooperation and affiliation of more than 55 companies/ producers in Greece in the lighting and lamps sectors, Appliances Recycling SA collected in the year 2017 more than 360 tons of lamps and lighting equipment achieving a recovery rate of over 90%.
