Small Electrical Recycling Collection Leaflet
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NEW Small electrical recycling collection Starts 18 February 2013 Have you got any small electrical items that are broken or you no longer want? Find out how you can start recycling them from home as part of our weekly green box recycling collection service. 2013 100% We may use different vehicles to pick up your electrical items so don’t worry if your usual recycling has been collected before or after your electricals. • Please put your small electrical items in an untied carrier bag - don’t worry if these get wet. • Place the bag next to your green recycling box on your usual collection day by 7am. You can put out more than one carrier bag if necessary. No thanks • No large items. We cannot take items that can’t fit inside an average sized plastic carrier bag including: TVs and PC monitors, large printers, fridges and freezers, washing machines, cookers, microwave ovens, and lawn mowers. These can be recycled but are too big for this collection, so please take them to your local Recycling Centre instead. • No fluorescent tubes and light bulbs. • No items with leaking batteries or broken glass which could harm our crews. Details correct at time of print 01/2013 Find out more: www.bathnes.gov.uk/electricalcollection Council Connect 01225 39 40 41 Text SMS 07797 806545 [email protected] If you need this leaflet in large print, Braille, audio format or your own language, please contact us. • Please remove any batteries first and put these in a small plastic bag at the top of your green box as usual. How should I put out my electricals?
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Information on the Small Electrical Recycling Collection introduced in February 2013.
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NEW Small electrical recycling collectionStarts 18 February 2013
Have you got any small electrical items that are broken or you no longer want? Find out how you can start recycling them from home as part of our weekly green box recycling collection service.
2013
100%
We may use different vehicles to pick up your electrical items so don’t worry if your usual recycling has been collected before or after your electricals.
• Please put your small electrical items in an untied carrier bag - don’t worry if these get wet. • Place the bag next to your green recycling box on your usual collection day by 7am. You can put out more than one carrier bag if necessary.
No thanks• No large items. We cannot take items that can’t fit inside an
average sized plastic carrier bag including: TVs and PC monitors, large printers, fridges and freezers, washing machines, cookers, microwave ovens, and lawn mowers. These can be recycled but are too big for this collection, so please take them to your local Recycling Centre instead.
• No fluorescent tubes and light bulbs.• No items with leaking batteries or broken glass which could harm
our crews.
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Details correct at time of print 01/2013
Find out more: www.bathnes.gov.uk/electricalcollection Council Connect
01225 39 40 41 Text SMS 07797 806545 [email protected]
If you need this leaflet in large print, Braille, audio format or your own language, please contact us.
• Please remove any batteries first and put these in a small plastic bag at the top of your green box as usual.
How should I put out my electricals?
What can I recycle?Any small electrical item that
has a plug or uses batteries. These items must be able to fit inside an average sized plastic carrier bag. We cannot take anything larger.
Yes pleaseWe can take small items including:
Yes please to all these…
… and more!
It is a waste to throw these away because they can be recycled and made into new things using their valuable metals and plastics - one clothes iron can provide enough steel to make 13 new steel cans.
toasters
cameras
hair dryers
kettles
dvd players
electronic toys hand-held power tools
(unwanted or broken)
Phones, mobile phones, remote controls, radios, VCRs, digiboxes, speakers, hi-fi units, electronic toys and more …
Hairdryers, hair straighteners, electric toothbrushes, hair trimmers, shavers, hair curlers, facial saunas, power showers and more …
Kettles, toasters, irons, blenders, sandwich toasters, coffee machines, whisks, bread makers, electric scales, smoothie makers, lamps (please remove light bulbs and shades) and more …
Drills, power tools, jigsaws, sanders, angle grinders and more …
All electricals we collect will be crushed, separated into their different materials and recycled to make new products.
Don’t forget to
donate any working
electricals in reusable
condition to charity
if possible.
