ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY

OVERVIEW

RECYCLING

OVERVIEW

Lighting accounts for 30% of the world’s energy consumption.

In the face of global warming and dwindling resources, it’s now more important than ever for governments, corporations and individuals to work quickly to adopt energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable lighting solutions designed with ‘Least Life Cycle Cost’ principles in mind.

In 2005, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report specifically dealing with lighting.

The report highlighted the importance of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through:

• The development of innovative technologies
• Improved product design, and
• The adoption of the most appropriate lighting technologies for
  a given application.

The environmental benefits of more efficient, longer-life lighting & display system

If lighting and display technologies are designed to perform efficiently and to a consistently high performance in the relevant application over a longer lifetime, the environmental impact (CO2 emissions) reduces exponentially.

The environmental benefits of using better lighting technology are well documented in a life-cycle-analysis study comparing CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) with incandescent lamps.

This study was undertaken by David Parsons from the University of Southern Queensland, and published in The Environmental Engineer in mid 2006
(click here to view the study article).

While these two lighting technologies are not relevant to a typical illuminated display application, the study nevertheless gives an excellent overview of the impact our choices have on the environment and our pocket!

SEEN is working vigorously with global partners to refine and develop lighting systems that offer:

• High efficiency
• Low heat output
• A long lifetime
• Extremely durable construction, and
• The ability to operate over a wide temperature range (extreme heat or cold) and in environments of continuous shock and vibration.

Environmental sustainability is a key consideration in all of our technological developments. The only way to truly reduce environmental impact is through innovation - innovation in raw materials, innovation in lamp and lamp driving systems, and innovation in design, etc.

SEEN lighting systems are ROHS compliant (a strict European environmental standard), under the EU directive that came into effect in July 2006.