Residents are being invited to bring their old, unwanted and broken electrical items for recycling to collection events being held at four East Riding locations over the next few weeks.
Waste and recycling officers from East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be visiting Goole, Snaith, Stamford Bridge and Wetwang to collect residents’ small electrical items – including kettles, toasters, radios and power tools – so they can be sent for recycling and reuse.
The events are being held to encourage residents not to place electrical items in their bins at home but instead take them to household waste recycling sites.
The officers will be taking their recycling van to:
Monday 30 June
9am-11am – Goole, Morrisons supermarket car park, Boothferry Road,
1pm-3pm – Snaith, St Lawrence Avenue,
Thursday 4 July
9am-11am – Stamford Bridge, corner of Battleflats Way and Ox Close,
1pm-3pm – Wetwang Community Hall.
More visits are due to follow at other East Riding sites later in the summer.
When the council previously held similar events back in 2018 and 2019, officers collected around 3 tonnes of small electrical items, which could all be sent for recycling.
Each year thousands of electrical items are found in the waste collected from residents’ blue and green bins – but they can’t be recycled that way.
Electrical items put in household bins can also be the cause of fires starting in bin lorries, waste transfer stations and recycling plants.
Instead residents are urged to take along to the collection events or to any of the East Riding’s 10 household waste recycling sites, which are open every day from 10am to 5pm.
Items which can be brought along to the events – no larger than a microwave please – include:
Toasters, kettles, irons, food mixers, blenders, sandwich makers, coffee machines, hairdryers, hair straighteners, electric toothbrushes, electric razors, mobile phones, laptops, desktop computers, printers, radios, game consoles, DVD players, chargers, speakers, remote control toys, table lamps, electric fans, electric heaters, and power tools including drills.
The team will take any item found in good working order to the Reuse Shop, at Humberfield Household Waste Recycling Site, North Ferriby, for PAT testing with a view to it being reused to benefit the Dove House Hospice charity.
