WEEE, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, will be the focus this year at the Recycle Week campaign scheduled for June. This will mark the first time one particular waste issue has been given priority over others. WRAP's Recycle Now Partners announced the theme on their website just before a March 1st spring drive will launch to promote greater residential recycling in areas such as WEEE. Recycle Week is held annually since its inception in 2004, but normally it focuses on general reuse, reduce and recycle issues. The change in focus is indicative of WRAP's urgent need to get UK households to recycle ... Full Story

A new recycling facility in St Helens, UK just opened up and will be handling a wide range of electrical based recycling for UK based recycling and waste management firm, Viridor. The new recycling centre will taking end-of-life electrical equipment from all over the country. The materials sent for processing at the new site will include e-waste collected from schools, hospitals, households, and businesses across the Northwest section of the UK. The new facility can process up to 40,000 metric tonnes when operating at full capacity. The electrical components are separated at the centre for materials which can be reused such as ... Full Story

The Vancouver winter Olympic Games may have already come to a close, but for those athletes that took home the prized medals will have a piece of that victory to carry with them forever. Although the athletes medals represent a personal victory, the medals now also represent a small victory in eco-friendly recycling. This year, for the first time in the history of the Olympics, the medals were made using recycled metals which were salvaged from discarded e-waste. A Canadian mining company, Teck Resources, was hired by the Olympic Committee to construct the medals using recycled gold, silver, and bronze from ... Full Story

According to a study conducted by the United Nations, mobile phones are becoming one of the biggest culprits contributing to the alarming high rates of growing electronic waste. Which are now being called e-waste. Cell phones are purchased across the world in droves each day, and what happens to the old mobile no longer needed? It ends up in the rubbish bin, or in a draw somewhere forgotten about. In response to this phenomenon, which many studies have shown could become a serious problem if not dealt with, mobile phone companies have begun coming up with recycling schemes and fresh incentives ... Full Story

In a new report released by the UN Environment Programme, findings reveal that developing nations such as Morocco, China, India and South Africa are experiencing a growing pile of e-waste issues with the rise in popularity of electronics. The consequences could be damaging to public health and the local environments if not addressed properly and in a timely fashion. Currently, over 40 million tonnes of e-waste is being generated globally per year. This number has caused the UN experts to warn countries that action must be taken to prevent disastrous consequences. The report drew on 11 separate developing countries to estimate future ... Full Story

New companies are springing up everywhere in an attempt to capitalise on the growing need for adequate places to dispose of old mobile phones. It seems most everyone these days as an old mobile phone laying around the house or flat somewhere, unsure of what to do with the out-of-date technology. Now, however, it is becoming increasingly popular to sell the phone to recycling companies and receive a small monetary compensation for an otherwise unused piece of equipment. There are several online sites which offer free or compensated mobile phone disposal. Yes...these companies will purchase old mobile phones and recycle them. There ... Full Story

Most people remember the day when they bought their first television, but what about their second, third, fourth, or even tenth television?  TV's have become a huge environmental concern as more people around the world are able to afford to buy them which has made for more TV's being thrown away.  Environmental concerns have increasingly become more important to people around the United Kingdom.  With recent studies showing that the United Kingdom is well behind most of Europe when it comes to recycling and waste management, new pressure has been put on government and local councils to get something done. ... Full Story

Over the last year people in the United Kingdom have become increasingly more educated about how to recycle.  Because of this exposure certain segments of the recycling industry have grown immensely in the last year.  One of the fastest growing segments of the recycling world is the recycling of small electronic devices.  Small electronics have become an important issue as the constant changing of technology leaves a lot of old devices lying around in drawers.  Recently a study was done to see what role large stores are playing in the recycling of electronic devices.  Stores are now required to give ... Full Story

Over the last year there has been increased focus on the recycling of small electronic devices.  A study showed that there were over ninety million used mobile phones in the United Kingdom alone and many of these will be disposed of in an improper manner.  With Christmas just a month behind many people are now wondering what to do with the old electronic devices which were replaced during the holiday season with the newest and latest technology.  iPod users are particularly guilty of this, as it seems every day Apple releases some new twist that everyone must have.  Every time ... Full Story

Over the last few years the green technology industry along with waste management and recycling has become some of the United Kingdom's fastest growing businesses.  As citizens become more educated about how to reduce waste and increase recycling companies are popping up to help fill the need created by this increase in knowledge.  Not only this, but there is potentially a lot of money to be made in recycling and waste management if the company is savvy and knows how to work the system.  This is particularly true of electronic waste, which has become a big problem the UK, which ... Full Story

As the holiday season comes to an end, many people around the United Kingdom are looking around their homes at all of the old things that they have which have recently been replaced.  Small electronic devices rank high on this list, as people are constantly looking for the newest and greatest technology, which leaves a lot of unused electronic equipment laying around. One of the largest processors of waste electric and electronic equipment or WEEE is claiming that unless the United Kingdom increases its efforts to recycle small WEEE, then they will fall significantly short of the recycling goals outlined ... Full Story

The topic of e-waste has been all over the news lately as the Christmas season brings with it all types of new electronic devices which will replace old ones.  The problem is dealing with all of the excess electronic devices that are no longer in use.  Unfortunately, studies have shown that most people are still unsure of how to recycle electronics and many people are even unaware that it is even an option.  As the United Kingdom tries to divert more of its waste away from landfills in an effort to reach the goals laid out by the European Union, ... Full Story