Dialight Partners with Veolia Environmental to Offer HID Lamp, Ballast Recycling
Streamlined Recycling Program Helps Facilities & Municipalities Meet Environmental Regs with Ease When Changing Over to High-Efficiency LED Fixtures
Farmingdale, NJ (May 20, 2010) – Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced that it has partnered with Veolia Environmental Services to offer high-intensity discharge (HID) and street light fixture and lamp recycling for commercial facilities and municipalities that make the switch to Dialight’s more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly LED lighting solutions.
As business and municipalities change out traditional fixtures in buildings, warehouses, streetlights and parking lots to take advantage of the cost and energy savings offered by LED technology, the discarded fixtures and lamps must be recycled or disposed of properly. Most contain hazardous materials like mercury that not only make them an environmental liability, but also expose the company or municipality to the risk of penalty for improper handling and disposal.
“LEDs are a much ‘greener’ option than traditional HID and fluorescent fixtures,” said Roy Burton, Dialight’s Group Chief Executive. “By adding this recycling option, we’re able to enhance the environmental benefits changing over to LEDs and relieve our customers of the burden in figuring out how they’re going to deal with the discarded fixtures.”
As one of the largest commercial recyclers of lamps and ballasts in the world, Veolia works with a broad range of customers to offer environmentally-compliant recycling services nation wide. Its state-of-the-art processing system ensures that customers who change out to Dialight’s LED indoor and outdoor fixtures will be able to minimize cost and maximize efficiency to meet their sustainability, regulatory compliance and budgetary requirements.
For more information about retrofitting commercial and municipal facilities with Dialight’s high-efficiency, low total cost of ownership LED fixtures – and recycling the old fixtures and lamps – visit www.dialight.com.
About Veolia Environmental Services North America
Based in Chicago, Veolia Environmental Services North America Corp. is the leading provider of fully integrated waste, environmental and industrial cleaning solutions to residential, municipal, commercial and industrial customers across the US, Canada and the Caribbean. The company is part of the Veolia Environnement companies in North America, with 30,000 North American employees providing sustainable environmental solutions in water management, waste services, energy management, and passenger transportation.
The Veolia Environmental Services group is the largest waste services company in the world and the only global manager of liquid, solid, non-hazardous and hazardous waste; on-site waste processing; industrial cleaning and process maintenance; and recycling, recovery and disposal for both the public and private sectors. Its parent company, Veolia Environnement (NYSE: VE and Paris Euronext: VIE), is the worldwide reference in environmental services. With more than 336,000 employees in 72 countries, Veolia
Environnement recorded annual revenues of almost $50 billion in 2009. Veolia Environnement is in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index (DJSI STOXX). Visit the company’s Web sites at www.veolia.com and www.VeoliaES.com.