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Please
do not put your old unit out with the rest of your household
rubbish but recycle it at your local community recycle
point. Please visit www.recycle-more.co.uk
to locate your nearest facility.
Helping to recycle your electrical equipment
Why are we involved?
Recycling facilities are now
available for all customers at which you can deposit your old
electrical products. This is a requirement under UK and European
legislation (The Waste
Electrical and Electronic
Equipment – or WEEE – Directive). The aim of the legislation
is to;
• Make good use of the
materials that make up old electrical equipment by recycling
rather than disposing in landfill.
• Prevent the negative
environmental effects of sending often hazardous electrical
equipment to landfill.
As a conscientious business,
Meaco (U.K.) Limited has chosen to group together with other
retailers in joining the ‘Distributor Take Back Scheme’.
Through this scheme, we have paid toward the provision of improved
of recycling facilities for our customers.
How does this work in practice?
Customers will be able to take
any old electrical equipment to participating civic amenity sites
(often known as ‘household waste recycling centres’) run by
their local councils. Please remember that this equipment
will be further handled during the recycling process, so please be
considerate when depositing your equipment. Funding
collected through the Distributor Take Back Scheme has been
distributed between all Local Authorities in the UK to ensure the
provision of improved recycling facilities. Producers of these
products will then ensure that deposited items are taken away and
recycled.
Where to dispose of electrical
equipment?
Wherever practical, old
electrical waste should not be disposed of with your household
waste. You can locate your closest participating collection
site at www.recycle-more.co.uk
(please remember to have your postcode to hand).
Other information
UK households dispose of over
1.2 million tonnes of electrical and electronic waste every year.
This is the equivalent of 150,000 double decker buses and would be
enough to fill the new Wembley Stadium 6
times over. Much of the UK’s electronic waste ends up in
landfill sites, where toxins put communities at risk. Failure to
segregate any type of recyclable material in the home will usually
result in items being disposed of in a landfill site (buried in
the ground in the UK) or being incinerated. To remind you to
recycle, all new electrical products are marked with a crossed out
wheeled bin symbol. |
