There are small ways in which people can make a difference in the battle against climate change. Although most people now recycle household waste, there are still many small ways in which they can make positive change that they often overlook. Things like unplugging mobile phone chargers when they are not in use, or turning off lights when you leave the room may seem like small things but when hundreds of millions of people are involved it ends up making a big impact. This is why companies and firms in the United Kingdom have been offering new ways to recycle and new items which are able to be recycled so that no way of saving carbon emissions is overlooked.
Exeter has recently announced that they will take part in the WEEE directive drive by offering customers a way to recycled low energy light bulbs. Sainsburys in Exeter is just one of two hundred locations that will offer this service to customers. The effort is a collaboration with recycling specialist Recolight and hopes to not only collect light bulbs for recycling but also batteries. After the batteries and light bulbs are collected they will be taken to specially approved locations for recycling. They hope that the scheme will offer customers a wider array of options for how and where they recycle these items.
Thus far Sainsburys is the only supermarket that is offering recycling of WEEE sanctioned energy saving light bulbs. Battery manufacturers will be force to offer free recycling starting at the beginning of February.
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