The company takes its stewardship
even further by producing coreless rolls
that cut down on cardboard waste and
packaging everything in recycled cardboard.
E-waste to LED Task Lighting
LittleFootprint™ Lighting, Santa Cruz,
Calif., a manufacturer of task lighting,
produces the HeronLED personal task
light from recycled e-waste, closing the
loop on plastics from e-waste.
“LittleFootprint Lighting was founded
on a belief that we can make LED lighting more sustainable by using recycled
plastic and steel to produce our made-in-USA desk lamps,” said Nancy Wahl-Scheurich, CEO.
The recycled plastic is sourced from
MBA Polymers, which produces sustain-ably mined plastics, including plastics-rich electronic shredder residue to
injection mold the lamp components,
becoming the UL-HB recognized postconsumer EvoSource™ ABS resin.
Chopped up metal e-waste supplied
by metal recyclers forms the lamp’s
metal components.
LittleFootprint has been awarded official e-Stewards® Enterprise designa-
tion as a result of its design and commitment to waste reduction.
The company’s green effort complements its green, energy-efficient LED
lighting, which uses a fraction of the
electricity some other lighting uses,
and is mercury-free. Taking green even
further, LittleFootprint designs its lighting for easy end-of-life disassembly and
recycling.
Wine Bottles to …
Wine Bottles
Of the 300 million cases of wine sold
each year in the U.S., 70 percent of the
bottles end up in landfills, not recycling
centers, and none have been reused—
until now.
