Recycling

Recycling your old electricals is easy!

Recycle your electrical and electronic devices free at your local recycling centre. To find your nearest centre, visit the Recycle More website www.recycle-more.co.uk and type in your postcode.

Why recycle?

Unwanted electrical equipment is the UK’s fastest growing type of waste. Many electrical items can be repaired or recycled, saving natural resources and the environment. If you do not recycle electrical equipment it will end up in landfill sites where hazardous substances can leak out and cause soil and water contamination – harming wildlife and also human health. We’re proud to support your local authority in providing local recycling facilities for electrical equipment. To remind you that old electrical equipment can be recycled, it is now marked with the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol. Please do not throw any electrical equipment (including those marked with this symbol) in your bin.

What is WEEE?

The Waste Electrical or Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive requires countries to maximise separate collection and environmentally friendly processing of these items.

How are we helping?

In the UK, distributors including retailers must provide a system which allows all customers buying new electrical equipment the opportunity to recycle their old items free of charge. As a responsible retailer, we have met the requirements placed on us by financially supporting the national network of WEEE recycling centres established by local authorities. This is achieved through membership of the national Distributor Take-back scheme (DTS). To find more information on WEEE recycling and to locate your nearest recycling centre please visit the Recycle More websitewww.recycle-more.co.uk.

Recycling your waste batteries

Batteries are made from important resources and chemicals, including lead, cadmium, zinc, lithium and mercury. If batteries are disposed of as normal municipal household waste, they will be taken to a landfill site and those resources will be lost and will contribute to the pollution of the environment. Recycling is one way you can help the environment and you should dispose of used batteries separately from other waste, using the collection and recycling schemes available. Your role in contributing to the recycling of waste batteries and in preventing pollution of the environment is essential. Each used battery that you place in a recycling box will be taken apart and many of the materials will be recovered and used to make new batteries or something else.

All batteries, and in the case of cellular batteries the packaging, are labelled with the wheelie bin symbol (see above) to indicate that they should not be disposed of as normal waste, but in specific recycling centres. We work with battery recycling scheme ERP UK to take back and recycle used batteries free of charge for recycling for customers within the UK. As part of this scheme we ask that you take your waste/spent batteries to a designated collection facility, usually your local authority waste recycling centre. To find the closest recycling centre to where you live please go to www.recycle-more.co.uk. By recycling your used batteries via dedicated battery collection points you are contributing to protecting our environment and the Earth's natural resources.

Germany Batteries registration number: DE 73564269

Germany WEEE registration number: DE 56432959

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