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Recycling electrical items

Warwickshire County Council has provided facilities at all the Household Waste Recycling Centres across the County to enable householders to recycle electrical items. 

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.
  • Smaller items can be recycled at one of the small electrical and electronic recycling banks placed around the County.
  • 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 Household Waste Recycling Centres (fridges and freezers are not accepted at Wellesbourne). The items must not be 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. Please call Waste Management on 01926 41 2593 for more information.

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Small electrical and electronic recycling banks

Warwickshire County Council has provided Small electrical and electronic banks (also known as WEEE banks - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) around the County to make it easier for residents to recycle small electrical items.

The small electrical and electronic banks are able to accept:

Phones, Remote controls, VCRs, Digiboxes, Electronic Toys, Kettles, Hairdryers, Electric Toothbrushes, Shavers, Small Kitchen Appliances, Irons, Smal DIY Tools, Clocks, Radios.

Items not able to accepted:

TV Monitors, Computers, Cookers, Washing Machines, Light Bulbs, Batteries, anything that wont fit in the chute.

Larger items should be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centres

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Small electrical and electronic recycling bank locations:

Nuneaton and Bedworth

  • Civic Hall car park (Spital Fields), Bedworth;
  • Bulkington Recreation Ground, School Road car park;
  • Attleborough Liberal Club Car Park, Nuneaton;
  • Jubilee Sports Centre, Greenmore Road, Nuneaton;
  • Sainsbury's, Vicarage Road, Nuneaton.

North Warwickshire

  • Woolpack Way/Long Street Car Park, Atherstone;
  • Long Street Car Park, Dordon;
  • Pear Tree Avenue, Kingsbury.;

Rugby Borough

  • Ashlawn Road, Rugby;
  • Jubilee Street, Rugby;
  • Featherbed Lane, Rugby;
  • Stretton on Dunsmore, Rugby;
  • Shilton Village, Rugby;
  • The Bear Pub, Bilton.

Warwick District

  • ASDA, Chesterton Drive, Leamington Spa;
  • Kennedy Square, Leamington Spa;
  • Sainsbury's, Shires Retail Park, Leamington Spa;
  • Rugby Road Shopping Precinct, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa;
  • Sainsbury’s, Saltisford, Warwick;
  • Tesco, Emscote Road, Warwick;
  • Warwick School, Myton Road, Warwick.

If any banks are full and need emptying please call 0800 458 0804 and quote the number on the side of the bank.

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Where the material goes

All material collected from the Household Waste Recycling Centres and WEEE Recycling Banks is bulked up at a plant in Wolverhampton before being transported to Blue Sky Plastic Recycling Plant, Bourne, Lincolnshire.

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WEEE regulations

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) came into force in this country on the 1st July 2007. The Directive aims to minimise the impact of electrical and electronic goods on the environment by increasing re-use and recycling, and reducing the amount of WEEE going to landfill. This directive also applies to fridges and freezers.

All manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment must register with an approved producer compliance scheme which have been set up to cover the cost of collecting and treating WEEE.

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.

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