Recycle Week

Has your kettle run out of steam? Is your TV facing the final credits? Many of us are already recycling everyday items such as newspapers, cans and plastic bottles. But did you know that old and unused electrical items can also become useful again?

This Recycle Week, running from 21st to 27th June, is focusing on small electrical items, that means anything with a battery or plug: from broken toasters and kettles gathering dust in the loft to disused power tools cluttering up the garage, all can be re-used or recycled.

Each of us accumulates three new electrical items each year on average, or 173 million nationally, but we find it harder to let them go as only one in five of our small electricals gets recycled.

Broken electricals contain valuable materials such as silver that can be used again, saving precious new resources. Many that are disused after an upgrade could find a new home somewhere else.

Recycle Week’s ‘Love your electricals: set them free’ campaign will show people how they can part with their once-loved possessions to give them a new life, visit the Recycle Now website at www.recyclenow.com and let’s waste less together this Recycle Week.