Australia generates millions of spent lamps each year, from households, offices, hospitals, and industrial facilities. While small in size, these lamps contain valuable recoverable materials such as glass, aluminium, and phosphor powder, along with small amounts of mercury that require careful handling.
EcoCycle provides national lighting recycling programs that ensure all lamps and lighting components are collected, processed, and recycled safely and responsibly within Australia.
Each is handled in accordance with EPA and ISO requirements to ensure full compliance and maximum resource recovery.
Lighting waste is collected and transported by EcoCycle’s company-owned fleet, ensuring safe, traceable handling from collection through to processing.
At our recycling facilities, lamps are processed through advanced systems such as our Lighting Waste Processing Plants, which separates components under negative pressure to contain mercury vapour.
Recovered materials including metals, glass, and phosphor powder, are then refined or recycled through approved downstream partners.
This controlled process allows up to 95% of lamp materials to be recovered for reuse while ensuring any mercury present is safely captured and sent for treatment or retirement.
While modern lighting is more energy efficient, improper disposal of old lamps can lead to unnecessary waste and mercury release. Recycling lamps the right way not only protects the environment but also conserves raw materials and reduces the carbon footprint of new manufacturing.
By recycling lighting with EcoCycle, businesses, councils, and institutions can meet compliance requirements while contributing to a cleaner, more sustainable future.
EcoCycle works with government, facility managers, electrical contractors, and waste service providers to make lighting recycling easy and accessible.
Whether it’s a one-off site clean-up or an ongoing facility program, we provide compliant collection, secure transport, and full recycling certification.
