Electrical recycling
Do you have an electrical item that's lost its spark? Or any small electrical items lying around that are broken or a bit past their best?
You can drop them off at the Recycling Village or have them collected through our Bulky Waste.
Items you can recycle at the Recycling Village:
- larger electrical goods such as fridges, freezers, washing machines, microwaves and TVs
- smaller electrical goods such as irons, radios, kettles and hairdryers
- batteries
- light bulbs and lamps
You can recycle batteries at the following stores:
- Asda, Coronation Street (in store)
- Asda, Boldon Colliery (in store)
- Morrisons, Coston Drive / Ocean Road, South Shields (in store)
- Morrisons, Jarrow (in store)
- Mothercare, 93 King Street, South Shields (in store)
- Sainsburys Local, 335-345 Prince Edward Road, South Shields (in store)
- Sainsburys Local, 3 Station Terrace, East Boldon (in store)
- B&Q Superstore, South Shields (in store)
- Travis Perkins, Mitre Place, South Shields (in store)
- Aldi, Chichester Road (in store)
- Tesco Supermarket, Newcastle Road
- Lidl Store, Boldon Lane (in store)
For more information or a full list of what and where you can recycle go to Recycling and rubbish.
Did you know?
If every household in the UK recycled one electrical or electronic item an estimated 73,500 tonnes could be diverted from landfill, which could save over 65,000 tonnes of CO² equivalent emissions. This would have the same impact as avoiding over 9,500 round the world flights.
- Electrical goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the UK, growing by 5% each year
- In the UK the amount of electrical waste we create in one year would fill the new Wembley Stadium six times! (recycle-more.co.uk)
- Each year in the UK we go through over 1.2 million tonnes of electrical waste. That is the equivalent of 150 thousand double decker buses!
- 75% of waste electronics end up in landfill sites
- In the lifetime of 1 UK citizen 3.3 tonnes of waste electronics is created! (weeeman.org)
- Over six million electrical items are thrown away every year in the UK. It is estimated that over half of them are still working or could easily be repaired." (ITDG, 2003)
- 15 million mobile phones are upgraded in the UK each year, laid from end-to-end they would reach from John O'Groats to Lands End!
To find out why we all need to reduce and recycle electrical items visit Weee Connect
