Distributors and retailers who supply electrical and electronic equipment to householders must ensure that WEEE can be returned on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis, free of charge, by offering a free in store take back facility or paying into a fund to provide alternative sites to accept WEEE.
Warwickshire County Council has provided facilities at all the Household Waste Recycling Centres across the County to enable householders to recycle electrical items.
What should I do now?
As a householder, you have an important role to play to ensure that the environmental impacts of electrical and electronic items are reduced when they meet the end of their life.
- If you have a working electrical item which you no longer require there may be a local organisation or charity which may be able to offer a reuse service.
- If your item is not suitable for reuse you can take it along to your local household waste recycling centre where a member of staff will be able to advise you which container to use for recycling.
- If your item is too large to transport, your local District Council may be able to offer a bulky waste collection service.
- Bulky household electrical and electronic equipment such as washing machines, televisions computer equipment and fridges, may be delivered in a van to the Hunters Lane facility in Rugby and Princes Drive in Leamington Spa. This is provided that they are not accompanied by other waste and that the person delivering the items can satisfy the operator of the centre that the items are not commercial (trade) waste.
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