Responsible Recycling of your Electronic Waste

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing areas of waste removal. The life cycle of electronics is reduced even further as newer, faster and better looking alternatives make your version obsolete on an almost yearly cycle.

The cost of keeping up to date definitely is felt on the household budget, it is also felt by the hefty environmental cost that we are only now becoming aware of. We want to reduce the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfill and always abide by the mantra of reduce, reuse, recycle.

It is estimated that the UK disposes around 1.6 million tons of waste a year, with the heavy items such as TV’s and monitors exported to developing economies to be broken down, and lighter items such as mobile phones getting recycled domestically or sent to South America or the Caribbean. That still leaves a high percentage of product that ends up in landfill.

Here at Compare and Recycle, we are committed to finding the most trusted recyclers and organisations committed to providing the customer with a good experience as well as having a responsible recycling procedure.

But we generally only focus on recycling phones and old gadgets, there are many larger appliances that need to be responsibly recycled and we encourage companies and individuals alike to look at their own local recycling facilities or speak to an independent contractor for more municipal based waste needs. There are companies that compare different waste services much like our very own site, one website that we can personally recommend is Waste Disposal Hub, a comparison site for local waste services.

We aren’t saying to forgo the latest upgrades to the gadgets, our phones and gadgets are an extension of self and as they become more powerful and more connected, the desire to have the latest Snapdragon chips and bigger more durable screens and phones can be hard to resist.

We only need to make the consideration of what to do with items once we are finished with them and recycling responsibly should be high on the agenda, and you can even make a bit of side money for doing so.