Sustainability
With today’s LED lamps, when a luminaire hits L70, or 30% lumen depreciation, it’s considered past its operating prime and should be replaced. An LED reaches its L70 lifespan after 5-6 years (or 50,000 hours) if used 10+ hours a day, depending on usage.
Prior to LED technology, when a lamp burned out (whether fluorescent, incandescent, metal halide, etc.) you’d simply recycle the lamp. This has created a lot of landfill waste. While you can technically replace an LED board, many users find it easier to simply throw away the fixtures and replace them with new ones.
At New Star Lighting, we want to help.
If you have purchased an LED luminaire from us in the past and it has reached L70, you can return it to New Star for a rebate on a new luminaire. New Star will recycle the luminaire for you. We will even pay for shipping costs to return the old luminaire to us!
To begin the process, please reach out to your New Star Regional Sales Manager.
Let’s work together to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
ReNew Star
New Star Lighting is committed to sustainability practices to reduce our environmental impact and be good stewards of our earth. We support our Chicago neighborhood and are proud that the majority of our employees live within a two-mile radius and walk or bike to work. As a lean manufacturer, we are dedicated to:
Reducing waste in material use in production. This includes recycling steel and aluminum, reclaiming water and powder from our powder coat paint line, recycling all plastics, wire, paper, glass, and minimizing packing materials. New Star recycles all cardboard brought into the facility from outside vendors and reuse it internally. We offer a ship back program with corner boards with a return label on outbound shipments so customers can ship them back to us for use on future shipments.
In-house nitrogen production for our laser equipment. We generate our own nitrogen gas using a dedicated “nitrogen producer” rather than relying on external deliveries of nitrogen gas, allowing us to produce the exact amount of nitrogen needed for our manufacturing equipment. This eliminates the need to purchase and transport nitrogen cylinders, reduces costs, and reduces our carbon footprint by eliminating transportation emissions.
Practicing Just in Time (JIT) manufacturing. New Star is a made-to-order manufacturer, building luminaires to designer’s specifications. Reducing waste and keeping lower inventory levels contribute to more sustainable manufacturing practices.
Implementing closed-loop designs that can be easily recycled. We are committed to designing for easy disassembly at a luminaire’s end-of-life.
We’ll even help recycle for you with our ReNEW STAR program!