Make the most of Recycle Week in Carmarthenshire
Has your kettle run out of steam? Is your TV facing the final credits? Don’t bin it, bring it!
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 be recycled?
This Recycle Week, from June 21-27, Carmarthenshire County Council is raising awareness on the range of small electrical items that can be recycled.
That means anything with a battery or plug: from broken toasters and kettles gathering dust in the loft, to old mobile phones in drawers and disused power tools cluttering up the garage.
Research shows that just under 30 per cent of us simply throw broken or unwanted items away in the rubbish, whereas if we switched to recycling these items we could divert over 100,000 tonnes of valuable waste electricals from UK landfills each year - the equivalent weight of 14,000 double decker buses!
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is one of the most harmful waste streams still being sent to landfill as it contains hazardous substances such as mercury, lead, beryllium and cadmium. When disposed of to landfill these substances are released into the ground where they pollute the surrounding area.
By keeping old WEEE separate from other household wastes it can be treated, the hazardous substances can be removed and a large proportion recycled rather than sent to landfill.
The council’s executive board member for the environment Councillor Haydn Jones said: “The aim of Recycle Week is to encourage us all to think about the many, easy ways we can waste less and make more of the resources we have. There are now more ways than ever to give your electricals a new lease of life, as well as being recycled into something new, they can also be donated to a good cause, for example, the British Heart Foundation have a number of furniture and electrical stores including one in Llanelli where your old items can be reused and sold to raise vital funds.”
Your old electricals can be taken to the county’s Household Waste Recycling Centres at Trostre (Llanelli), Nantycaws (Carmarthen), Wernddu, (Ammanford), Llangadog and Whitland.
For further information call Carmarthenshire Direct on 01267 234567 or visit www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk
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 be recycled?
This Recycle Week, from June 21-27, Carmarthenshire County Council is raising awareness on the range of small electrical items that can be recycled.
That means anything with a battery or plug: from broken toasters and kettles gathering dust in the loft, to old mobile phones in drawers and disused power tools cluttering up the garage.
Research shows that just under 30 per cent of us simply throw broken or unwanted items away in the rubbish, whereas if we switched to recycling these items we could divert over 100,000 tonnes of valuable waste electricals from UK landfills each year - the equivalent weight of 14,000 double decker buses!
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is one of the most harmful waste streams still being sent to landfill as it contains hazardous substances such as mercury, lead, beryllium and cadmium. When disposed of to landfill these substances are released into the ground where they pollute the surrounding area.
By keeping old WEEE separate from other household wastes it can be treated, the hazardous substances can be removed and a large proportion recycled rather than sent to landfill.
The council’s executive board member for the environment Councillor Haydn Jones said: “The aim of Recycle Week is to encourage us all to think about the many, easy ways we can waste less and make more of the resources we have. There are now more ways than ever to give your electricals a new lease of life, as well as being recycled into something new, they can also be donated to a good cause, for example, the British Heart Foundation have a number of furniture and electrical stores including one in Llanelli where your old items can be reused and sold to raise vital funds.”
Your old electricals can be taken to the county’s Household Waste Recycling Centres at Trostre (Llanelli), Nantycaws (Carmarthen), Wernddu, (Ammanford), Llangadog and Whitland.
For further information call Carmarthenshire Direct on 01267 234567 or visit www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk
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