- Old electrical appliances are quite unlike common urban garbage. These are complex artifacts and many contain toxic chemical substances. Inappropriate disposal methods such as land fill or incineration can pollute air, soil and water.
- Most of the electrical equipment could be reused or separated into electrical equipment parts.
- Many of the electrical items that we throw away can be repaired or recycled. Recycling items helps to save natural finite resources and also reduces the environmental and health risks associated with sending waste electrical goods to landfill.
- You can donate old working electrical equipments to the charity shops rather than just throwing them away.
- All new electrical and electronic products sold now carry the 'crossed out wheelie bin" logo to help you identify which products are recyclable.
- To avoid environmental and health problems due to hazardous waste substances in electrical and electronic goods, appliances marked with this symbol mustn't be disposed of with unsorted municipal waste, but recovered, reused or recycled using an official recovery system.
- To make recycling easier, when you take your waste electrical items to a Household Waste and Recycling Centre, they are now separated into the 5 groups below.
- Large household items- washing machines, microwaves
- White goods - fridges/ freezers
- TV's and monitors
- Gas discharge lamps
- All other electrical goods
FACTS
Electrical goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the UK, growing by 5% each year
Each year in the UK we go through over 1.2 million tonnes of electrical waste. That is the equivalent of 150 thousand double Decker buses
75% of waste electronics end up in landfill sites
Two million TV sets are discarded every year - most end up in landfill sites
"Over six million electrical items are thrown away every year in the UK. It is estimated that over half of them are still working or could easily be repaired
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