by Rebecca Walker — March 31, 2010—UL Environment, Inc., a global leader in environmental evaluation and certification, announced it is beginning a collaborative effort to develop sustainability standards for indoor and outdoor lighting.
These standards will assist consumers, designers, architects and building operators in identifying more sustainable options for interior and exterior light fixtures, LED modules and related lighting components. The standards will address entire luminaires, including reflector, aperture, outer shell and connection to a power source, says the organization, and will be based on environmental assessment of a product’s entire life cycle, from raw materials to manufacture, use and disposal.
UL Environment’s sustainability standards will consider environmental elements such as energy efficiency and product materials, manufacturing process and recyclability. The standards will set minimum environmental requirements and create a progressive and tiered structure that makes it possible for manufacturers to highlight their sustainability achievements.
Development of the standards will draw upon input from UL Environment’s Standard Technical Panels (STPs) comprised of stakeholders such as manufacturers, government entities, non-governmental organizations and consumer interest groups. For more information, see the UL Environment Web site.
