Tag: recycling
Electrical recycling fund launches to tackle growing e-waste challenge
Material Focus, the not-for-profit Recycle Your Electricals campaign for the UK, is launching a new £2.5 million funding opportunity to make it easier for UK households to recycle their electricals. Material Focus’ “Electricals Recycling Fund” will fund two types of projects – those seeking to add household electricals collection services using existing infrastructure, and those…
Currys launches ‘cash for trash’ scheme
Tech retailer Currys has announced the launch of what it claims is the UK’s first-ever recycling scheme that gives monetary reward for old tech. Called Cash for Trash, the month-long initiative runs from 16th March to 15th April 2022 and calls on anyone in the UK to bring in any old, broken, or unused electronics to…
4 in 10 Brits have cupboards full of unwanted electrical waste
New research from BT has revealed that just over four in ten Brits (41%) have cupboards, drawers or bags full of unwanted electrical waste as nearly a third (31%) don’t know how to recycle it. The news comes as BT reveals it has recycled nearly a million pieces of BT equipment since the start of…
1 in 8 office workers to resign because lack of remote working
Around one in eight office workers has resigned or will resign from their job as a result of the pandemic with lack of remote working one of the key reasons for quitting, new research by IT asset disposal company DSA Connect shows. Its research found 12% of office workers – around two million employees –…
Brits sitting on £7 billion in unwanted gadgets, claims research
Our homes hold a staggering 184 million pieces of unwanted gadgets with a value of more than £7 billion, according to research from price comparison site Uswitch.com. The average household has seven unused gadgets, with almost one in three (28%) hanging onto old laptops, and a similar proportion storing out-of-date TVs (27%) and digital cameras…
Up to 40 million gadgets unused in UK homes
There are up to 40 million unused electronic gadgets in UK homes, a new study estimates. Each of those devices, such as old mobile phones, contains valuable “rare earth elements” which are increasingly endangered. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has carried out a survey of just how much unused technology is being stockpiled in UK…
Google pledges to include recycled materials in all own products by 2022
Google has vowed to use recycled materials in all products from its main hardware line by 2022. The pledge to sustainability will be enforced across its Made by Google range, which includes the likes of the Pixel smartphone, the Google Home speaker, and Pixelbook laptop. Starting in 2022, 100% of Made by Google products will…
Medals for 2020 Tokyo Olympics made from recycled gadgets
The medals which will be presented at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been unveiled, with the metal in each one made using materials from recycled gadgets. Designed by Junichi Kawanishi, each of the 5,000 medals contains metals extracted from consumer electronics handed in by the Japanese public over the last two years. The Tokyo…
Apple’s recycling robots take 200 iPhones apart EVERY hour
Apple is expanding its environmental programmes by increasing the number of old devices which can be taken apart by its recycling robots as well as opening a new lab to find new recycling methods. The technology giant has said its robots, each known as Daisy, were now capable of taking apart 1.2 million devices a…
Research shows a whopping 68 million unused mobile phones in the UK
New research from SellMyMobile.com has revealed that Britain is sitting on a mountain of as many as 68 million unused or unwanted mobile phones. A sample study of 1,332 past and present mobile owners showed that two thirds (65%) of…