If your small appliance still works, please consider passing it on to one of the charities or re-use organisations in the city which are able to accept electrical items.
You can find a list of these in the A-Z recycling directory.
Small electrical appliances can be taken to special banks at five recycling points around the city:
- Sainsbury’s, Coldhams Lane
- Waitrose, Hauxton Road
- The Beehive Centre, Coldhams Lane
- Arbury Court car park
- Colville Road car park
Recyclable items
The banks can accept items of up to approximately 30×30cm, including:
- hairdryers
- kettles
- irons
- DVD players
- small stereos
- electric toothbrush
- air freshener plug-in
- CD players or MP3 players
- telephones (mobile and landline)
- electronic toys
If an item still works and is useful it will be passed on to a local re-use organisation. However we expect most items to be broken or outdated, and these will be recycled.
Larger items such as televisions, computers and laptops cannot go in the recycling banks. For information about passing on or recycling large appliances such as fridges or washing machines please see the bulky waste page.
Public awareness video
This television advert,which aims to raise householder awareness of the need to recycle waste electronics, was produced by Weee connect.
What happens next?
The small appliances are collected by a company called WRG (Waste Recycling Group) and taken to a plant in West Yorkshire run by Sunersol.
Anything that looks re-usable is pulled out and tested, and would then be passed on for resale if functional.
Other items are processed by removing batteries, wires and electronic parts for recycling in the UK.
The plastic and metal parts left over are then baled and sent to their recycling plant in China for recycling.
