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Jenin
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HOW TO RECYCLE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
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electrical appliances are quite unlike common urban garbage. These are
complex artifacts and many contain toxic chemical substances.
Inappropriate disposal methods such as land fill or incineration can
pollute air, soil and water.
- Most of the electrical equipment could be reused or separated into electrical equipment parts.
- Many
of the electrical items that we throw away can be repaired or recycled.
Recycling items helps to save natural finite resources and also reduces
the environmental and health risks associated with sending waste
electrical goods to landfill.
- You can donate old working electrical equipments to the charity shops rather than just throwing them away.
- All
new electrical and electronic products sold now carry the 'crossed out
wheelie bin" logo to help you identify which products are recyclable.
- To
avoid environmental and health problems due to hazardous waste
substances in electrical and electronic goods, appliances marked with
this symbol mustn't be disposed of with unsorted municipal waste, but
recovered, reused or recycled using an official recovery system.
- To
make recycling easier, when you take your waste electrical items to a
Household Waste and Recycling Centre, they are now separated into the 5
groups below.
- Large household items- washing machines, microwaves
- White goods - fridges/ freezers
- TV's and monitors
- Gas discharge lamps
- All other electrical goods
FACTS
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Electrical goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the UK, growing by 5% each year
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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
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75% of waste electronics end up in landfill sites
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Two million TV sets are discarded every year - most end up in landfill sites
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"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
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