Rebelle Architectural Lighting Luminaires are made from long-life recyclable materials including aluminum and glass. Most Rebelle luminaires are manufactured using cast aluminum housings which inherently contain recycled aluminum content.
Almost all Rebelle products are available with energy efficient components such as electronic ballasts and fluorescent as well as metal halide lamp sources. (Please refer to individual product specification pages for energy efficient lamp and ballast configurations available in each product.)
A large aspect of our product offering also addresses light pollution considerations by offering cut-off luminaire optics. These Dark Sky compliant luminaires are ideal for applications where light trespass is a concern. (Please refer to notation on individual product specification pages indicating cut off optics.)
Our mandate is to manufacture our products while limiting environmental impact.
The Rebelle factory uses energy efficient light sources including compact fluorescent, and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps.
Wherever possible we try to eliminate adding waste to our environment by recycling materials used in the manufacturing process, limiting emissions to the air through the use of our powder coat paint process, and recycling office materials where possible.
Below is a listing of environmentally conscious practices we employ at our facility:
Statement from our packaging supplier, THARCO:
Corrugated products in landfills is a needless waste of a recyclable resource and the expensive space it occupies. It is projected that 12-1/2 million tons of corrugated products will be disposed of this year in the diminishing space of landfills. THARCO believes that Source Reduction is a feasible solution to reduce solid waste. If fewer trees are cut, less paper will reach landfills. Technical advances in paper production have made it possible to use less virgin and more recycled fibers.
The new high performance papers use a matting process which aligns fibers in both the cross and machine direction while applying more pressure during drying, producing a stiffer, lower weight paper. The paper industry has created an alternative to Rule 41, Item 222, and is on the verge of revising the Military Specifications. Changes in the distribution environment have caused shippers to place more emphasis on box compression strength to resist stacking forces instead of puncture resistance. Therefore, paper will no longer be sold solely as a commodity but instead graded by performance.
The Mullen Burst Test, which is the current grading parameter of linerboard and corrugated will be replaced with the Ring/Edge Crush test. Lower weight, stiffer paper may now be used to meet the new testing limits; for example, 90# (lbs. per thousand square feet) liners may be replaced with 72#, 69# liners may be replaced with 56# liners, and 42# liners may be replaced with 35# liners, resulting in packages designed more for their stacking strength. Improved testing methods and design procedures now allow THARCO to reduce the amount of corrugated and foam used per package and still provide the product adequate protection.
Recycling post and pre-consumer corrugated board are other important elements in source reduction. Pre-consumer material consists of recovered paper from the manufacturing process: corrugated box scrap, mill paper trim, and rejected paper. Post-consumer material is corrugated board that has been diverted from the solid waste system to be recycled.
THARCO currently produces corrugated which has an average of 59% recycled fiber content, of which post-consumer material is 44%. THARCO is committed to a clean environment and to the conservation of our limited natural resources through source reduction and recycling.