UL Environment, Inc. has begun 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. The standards will be based on environmental assessment of a product’s entire life cycle, from raw materials to manufacture, use and disposal.
This standards effort continues UL’s involvement in lighting standards, which includes the development and publication of LED Safety Standard UL 8750 in late 2009. UL Environment expects initial drafts of the lighting sustainability standards to be completed in 2010.
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