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Appliance Recycling Group launches new kerbside WEEE collection service
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The Appliance Recycling Group is helping to make appliance recycling easier for UK consumers, with the launch of its latest Uber-style waste collection initiative,
CollectMyElectricals.co.uk. Company Owner, James Farmer, tells us more…
company said the new service provides an Uber-style experience for UK consumers – a compliant “catch all” for those who don’t book retail recycling services or are unable to take equipment to their local recycling centre. ARG, which has been trading since 2013,
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is now one of the UK’s leading collection and reuse organisations, operating from its core operating centre in Birmingham. Each year, more than 250,000 major domestic appliances are discarded and sent to ARG, for the purposes of reuse and recovery as whole and component parts, before recycling. The process has been popular amongst manufacturers and retailers, providing greater control and accountability across the whole recycling experience.
he Appliance Recycling Group (ARG) is aiming to make recycling e-waste “unavoidable” as it launches its latest kerbside recycling initiative,
CollectMyElectricals.co.uk. The
The
CollectMyElectricals.co.uk project is
three years in the making – a self-confessed obsession of ARG Owner, James Farmer, during his final year at university where he studied ‘Service User Motivation in a Recycling Setting’. The relationship between culture and motivation of the best and worst recycling regions in the UK really lit the fuse on the project, which launches on 1 June 2024. The service aims to attend to the WEEE volume that slips between the distributor takeback system and the 22,000 e-waste recycling points across the UK. “Despite mature retail recycling services, and the well-publicised recycling points across the UK, there are still more than 50,000 incidents of fly-tipping annually,” explains Mr Farmer. “At the beginning of any disposal journey, most of this equipment leaves the home in a condition which could be reused, with minor cosmetic damage, simply needing a more technical eye.
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“For too long, leaving material at the bottom of the driveway has been a cop-out, with no guarantee of where it may end up, and a vast proportion of this material evading the UK recycling system.
“If we look at this with a less critical eye, sometimes people simply want things to happen. They do not want to trek to their local recycling centre on a Saturday afternoon with a large, heavy appliance in their car boot, they want to be at home with their families. We must also not forget those who cannot drive, and have bulky electricals which need recovering – we must feed this behavioural demand.” Latest UK regulatory reform appears to favour greater access to recycling services, although the commercial aspect of this proposition is much debated. Doing the right thing has a cost, but it’s a cost that
CollectMyElectricals.co.uk believes that the consumer is prepared to meet, if they are able to raise the waste treatment standards. Our new service, which operates on a carbon reducing back-haul operation, promises to handle material to make reuse possible. Earlier in the year, ARG committed £100,000 worth of tested domestic appliances from its WEEELABEX accredited facility to the reuse network, with this latest initiative aimed to make it more available for everyone – with a sustainable supply for years to come. The
CollectMyElectricals.co.uk service starts at £49.99, and will be more expensive than the distributor takeback services charged by retailers, which remains the best value for money for UK consumers. However, compared to the house clearance and bulky waste markets, this service is a credible and more affordable service for those who are unable to get to any of the free e-waste recycling points. From 1 June 2024 you can book a collection of bulky e-waste by visiting www.
collectmyelectricals.co.uk. Or to find out more about the Appliance Recycling Group, visit
www.theappliancerecyclinggroup.com.
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