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Wasteful Britain

Wasteful Britain Even though a European directive has required us to recycle electronic waste since early 2007, the UK is still lagging desperately behind the rest of Europe, the BBC unveils today. Apparently fewer than half of us recycle our electronic equipment, compared to 80% of Germans.

While this is an embarrassing statistic, I think the lack of kerbside collection and inner city recycling facilities for this type of waste could be to blame. A quick postcode search for places designed to take this sort of rubbish reveals a disparate picture of sites well outside main conurbations. With households containing:

"an average of 2.4 TVs, 1.6 computers, 2.4 games consoles, 3 mobile phones, and 2.2 MP3 players,"

the case for providing more urban recycling points and kerbside collections looks very strong.

Useful links:

Recycle Bank Locator
Envirowise

Created on Tuesday May 26 2009 01:28 PM

Tags: recycling technology

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