Recycling? ‘Bring’ it on!

The Warwickshire Waste Partnership is working in partnership with DHL and Stratford secondary schools to encourage residents to recycle their redundant electrical items at school recycling 'bring' events.

The bring events provide convenient locations across the district for residents to easily recycle old broken electrical items. Small items will be accepted including phones, remote controls, VCRs, digiboxes, electronic toys, kettles, irons, hairdryers, Christmas lights, small DIY tools, radios and clocks.

The events will be held at:

• Studley High School, Tuesday, 20 September, 8am to 12noon
• Shipston High School, Thursday, 22 September 2011, 8am to
  12noon
• Southam College, Thursday, 13 October, 8am to 12noon

By recycling unwanted electricals and electronics residents can reduce landfill and save valuable raw materials. For example, one household iron contains enough metal to produce 13 steel cans.

Large electronic items such as TV monitors, fridges, and computers will not be accepted at the events but can be taken along to any of Warwickshire's Household Waste Recycling Centres. To find the nearest site and check opening hours visit the website at www.warwickshire.gov.uk/hwrc

However, if the unwanted electrical items are still working, some of Warwickshire's voluntary and community organisations will also gladly accept unwanted working electrical items, which are inspected, checked and resold – often with a guarantee. To find you local reuse scheme log onto www.warwickshire.gov.uk/reuse

Residents can also try offering their unwanted electrical items through online reuse networks such as Community Freebay, Freegle at www.freegle.org.uk or Freecycle at www.freecycle.org.uk