Veolia Supports Plastic Bottle Light Innovation

Veolia, the UK’s largest waste management company, has given its support to an innovative project which aims to bring light to deprived areas of the world through two innovative approaches involving plastic bottles

Launching the company’s support for ‘Liter of Light’ at London’s University of the Arts near King’s Cross station yesterday, 14 January, the company’s senior vice president for the UK, Estelle Brachlianoff, said supporting the scheme “ticks all the boxes for us”.

Mrs Brachlianoff said: “This helps makes the world a safer place as well as a lighter place… We are as a company committed to resourcing the world is you can imagine that recycling plastic and using a small amount of water to save energy and bring light is in a nutshell everything we do as Veolia.”

Liter of Light aims to bring light to poorer communities in two ways. One is to insert a plastic bottle containing some bleach and filled with water upside down in the roof of houses typically with galvanised roofs and lacking electric lighting. About half the bottle is above the roof line and sunlight is refracted into the room at the strength of about a 55 watt bulb for about 10 hours a day.

A separate project sees the plastic bottles used to hold a thin bulb and connected to a large battery which can last up to eight years and is powered by small solar panels.

Source: Let's Recycle

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