The facts
WEEE is the fastest growing waste stream in the UK, growing by at least 5% each year.
We dispose of over 1.2 million tonnes of electrical and electronic waste every year in the UK from the public alone.

Each and every year, this is the equivalent of:

150,000 double decker buses
OR
164 Eiffel Towers
OR
200,000 African Elephants
OR
444,444 Range Rovers

The amount of electrical waste created by members of the public in the UK would fill the new Wembley 6 times over every year!

The average UK citizen will discard 3.3 tonnes of WEEE in a lifetime - equal to one double decker bus for each and every family.

Two million TV sets are discarded alone every year.

Electronic waste is increasing three times faster than average municipal waste and the EU estimates that WEEE currently accounts for 4% of total waste.

Why recycle?
Much of the UK's electronic waste ends up in landfill sites, where toxins put communities at risk. Failure to segregate any type of recyclable material in the home will usually result in items being disposed of in a landfill site (buried in the ground in the UK) or being incinerated.
It has been estimated that landfill space in the UK will run out within the next 10 years. Recycling WEEE will have significant effects on the environment.
Where WEEE is not recycled, this waste can have negative impacts on soil, air and water quality which can lead to environmental damage, and which can also lead to negative impacts on human health and animal heath.

What you can do
Visit www.recycle-more.co.uk to locate your nearest recycling facilities for electronic waste with the recycle-more bank locator, which includes an easy to use interactive mapping system

Look out for the crossed-out wheelie bin symbol on products that should be taken to your nearest electrical recycling facility: