Recycle your electricals!
Gloucestershire Recycles have launched their latest ‘Recycle Your Electricals’ campaign. The campaign aims to encourage more people to recycle their electricals rather than throwing them away.
Electricals are rich in precious metals and are very valuable, but these resources are lost when electricals aren’t properly recycled. Discarded or hoarded household electricals cost the UK economy £370 million per year of lost valuable raw materials such as gold, copper, aluminium and steel.
The creation of new electrical items has a high carbon footprint so reusing and recycling electricals is important to help reduce the impact of climate change.
You can help the campaign by:
- Talking to residents about recycling electricals
- Knowing where your nearest recycling points are, either by checking how you can recycle at kerbside (for all districts except Stroud) or by searching for your nearest point on waste wizard
- Sharing GCC Social Media posts including posts explaining that you must always recycle your batteries separately to avoid bin lorry fires
- Reusing, repairing or recycling your hoarded electricals, the average family could make £620 by selling these on.
- Ordering electricals recycling leaflets for your area by emailing waste@gloucestershire.gov.uk
For more information visit our website https://www.gloucestershirerecycles.com/reduce/electricals.
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