Electrical items recycled through Devon’s recycling centres – Trial

Jan 5, 2022 | News

A trial to boost re-use of electrical items is taking place at five Household Waste Recycling Centres across Devon.

The project, funded by the electricals industry to encourage the re-use of electrical items, will initially focus on flat screen TVs, vacuum cleaners and lighting.

In 2018/19, over 7,200 tonnes of electrical items were recycled through Devon’s recycling centres and the trial aims to go one step further and capture any items that are still in good working order to keep them in circulation for longer.

The participating trial sites are:

  • Pinbrook Recycling Centre, Exeter
  • Ivybridge Recycling Centre
  • Brunel Road Recycling Centre, Newton Abbot
  • Knowle Hill Recycling Centre, Exmouth
  • Bideford Recycling Centre

Residents arriving at participating recycling centres with flat screen TVs, vacuum cleaners or lighting will now be asked by site staff if the item is still working and in good condition.

Items that can be reused will be PAT and function tested by trained site staff and then made available in the site’s reuse shop for the public to buy, along with furniture, bric-a-brac and other re-useable household items. Non-working electrical items and any failing the testing procedure will be recycled.

It is estimated that following the testing process, 33% of TVs, 50% of vacuums and 72% of lighting/lamps will be suitable to re-use, meaning an additional 48 tonnes of electrical goods will be re-used per year at participating sites.

Recycling centre re-sale shops are popular with the public as they offer a range of household items at affordable prices.  Public demand for re-sale shops to include electrical items has grown as budget savvy shoppers embrace the cost savings of buying re-usable goods, whilst also benefiting the environment.

The grant funding has helped provide workshop and testing facilities as well as staff training to allow re-useable items to be function and safety tested prior to re-sale.  It is anticipated that the scheme will be self-financing going forward which will help keep it going.

Subject to the success of the initial 5 site roll-out, other sites and other electrical items could be added to the scheme in future to further boost re-use in Devon.

For more information visit www.recycledevon.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All About Heat Pumps – Monday 20th Dec, 6:30pm, by Zoom

Dec 17, 2021 | News

Hello everyone – I’d like to invite you to a free event organised by Sustainable Dittisham.

I expect you’ve heard of heat pumps? Perhaps someone has told you that they can’t work in old houses. But that’s not quite right.

Most of us in the Parish heat our homes with oil. Oil has very high carbon emissions and over the next few years we’re going to have to work to insulate our homes and to change over to renewable heating, mainly heat pumps.

What better time to have Graham Hendra booked in to talk about heat pumps and to bring even more clarity to the table.
Graham has worked with heat pumps for over 15 years, designed thousands of working systems, for some makes he literally wrote the technical manual.He is in a great position to

share with us from first-hand, rock-solid experience what works and what doesn’t.

Time: Dec 20, 2021 06:30 PM LondonJoin Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86012760279?pwd=OGlLR2d1V3FRM3IxWE1kd2Q1UUdZUT09

Meeting ID: 860 1276 0279
Passcode: 016414

All are most welcome to attend – do feel free to spread it around.

More info here: https://www.sustainabledittisham.org/all-about-heat-pumps/

Thank you,

Sune Nightingale