Sustainability & Ethics
Sustainability at Anglepoise is not a badge or a campaign. It is a simple promise to Abandon Darkness in how we design, make and look after our lights. We try to let go of anything that is not built to last. It starts with the lamp on your desk or by your bed. A piece of classic design that is also a working tool you use every day and expect to keep for years. We know we are not perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise. Instead we focus on being a little better today than we were yesterday. That steady, practical progress is what Abandon Darkness means to us.
Every Anglepoise is Guaranteed for Life
(and we mean life)
All new Anglepoise lamps bought since 2020 come with a lifetime guarantee, meaning that customers will always have access to expert help, spares and repairs to keep lights working until the next generation. Most importantly, this lifetime guarantee is about our commitment to the planet – these lamps are designed for life and destined to be heirlooms in the way that many of our vintage products already are.
Repairs and Spares
Get It Fixed
We now carry more than 60 spare parts, so if your Anglepoise breaks, we will do our very best to repair it.
We also re-engineer spare parts from discontinued designs, so that lamps that are almost 80 years old can still shine as brightly as the day they were made. At the moment, most spares are sent from the UK; the next challenge is to match this level of availability in other parts of the globe, starting with the US and EU.
Packaging
We’ve made huge steps forward in the last few years with our packaging, which is now 95% plastic-free (we’re working on the other 5%).
Polystyrene has been consigned to the past, thankfully, and the cardboard we use is recyclable. We have swapped single use plastic bags for compostable ones (these provide a protective barrier for parts of our lamp when they are in transit). We are aware that there can be issues with reusing compostable bags and can only advise you to check policies for these bags in your local area.
Lamp screws and any supplied tools now come in a craft paper envelope or, with some lamps, simply slot into the boxes themselves.
Landfill fills us with horror
Recycling
If all else fails and we really can’t breathe life back into you’re Anglepoise, you can send it back to us and we will responsibly recycle its components, reusing and repurposing whatever we can.
