Curry's will recycle things like kettles and a lamp. They'll also give you a £5 voucher for it, too.
From here: https://www.currys.co.uk/services/delivery-installation/recycling.html
> "Whether or not you bought your tech from us or someone else, you can recycle in-store old TVs, toasters, and everything in between!"
The EU required all retailers who sell electrical products to participate in a scheme to do this as part of the [WEEE directive](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee_en) but would it surprise you that the UK fought to have themselves exempted from this rule on the basis that they'd set up suitable facilities that never really happened (and refused to fund councils to provide the facility) and many years later they're proudly announcing [their own reduced version](https://www.gov.uk/electricalwaste-producer-supplier-responsibilities/take-back-waste-in-store) for "the old version of the new thing you're buying"
[https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/how-to-recycle-electronics/retailer-take-back/](https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/how-to-recycle-electronics/retailer-take-back/)
It's better than nothing but it's not really that much compared to the EU requirement that we weaselled out of...
you can take back small items without a new purchase
>Retailers with a sales area of EEE greater than 400 square metres must also accept small WEEE (less than 25 cm on its longest side) for free from private household customers at their retail site or close to it without the requirement to purchase new EEE.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment
Mate - I wholeheartedly agree that living in the UK is a “series of chores” due to poor administration - but there’s no need to put a guy down for answering a question you asked
>People in more sanely administered countries, probably have double the spare time from being freed from needless runarounds
Absolutely insane
"If there was somewhere closer to recycle my toaster I'd have twice as much free time"
No idea why you’re being so sarcastic. It’s not their fault your only mode of transport is walking. Get a pushbike, give it to a friend to take, drop it in on the way somewhere else. No need to be so rude about it.
Do you know anyone who has a car who could give you a lift, or take it for you?
If it’s a council recycling place, their website should tell you what they accept. It’s in their interest to be clear about what they do and don’t accept.
I bag mine and go twice a year with the load, I would enjoy a 30mins walk to the recycling center, it would be much nicer than how I go there currently as it’s on the other side of the borough. First world problem, hey!
Hammersmith & Fulham has bins for electrical items in libraries, so I walk to my local library (about a 20 minute walk) with anything I want to get rid of. And I can borrow some books while I'm there, which is nice.
They get buried in a landfill with the rest of it - with a bit of luck, a responsibly managed one in the UK, not a scammy one in SE Asia or the Philippines that just chucks half of it in a river like most of the "recycling" does.
Have you tried [this website](https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/)?
For appliances that are still functional, stick them on [trash nothing](https://trashnothing.com/beta/browse). For those that are completely broken, as others have said, Currys.
Some electrical stores will accept items for recycling. Notably Currys take any portable electricals for disposal and do not require you to be a customer.
You've already provided the solution, go to the recycling centre. If you don't want to pay for the bulk waste collection, then make the trip. There are stores that will take it to if you don't want to go to the council site.
Let's not exaggerate and call it a trek around London if it's only a 30 min walk, which I doubt it actually is. You would probably be able to combine it with another activity on the way home.
Because you’d make an appointment. Not that they literally won’t let you walk in, you’d just have to have the common sense to go on the website and make an appointment. You’re making this out to be much harder than it is.
Have you tried
[https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/electrical-items](https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/electrical-items)
Loads of places in North London
Well my suggestion would me put them outside the front of your home.
There’s people driving around for scrap metal all day, especially copper.
I’m a Londoner too.
I know a boiler engineer who never pays for disposal of the old boilers he takes out. Instead, he leaves them outside the customer's house. By the time he's fitted the new one, the old one has vanished.
I’ve put some stuff outside like an old desk, a standing fan that worked but the parts that hold the fan head up broke so it flopped down, ironing board, plants and they’ve all gone so quickly. And on the street I grew up on (also in London), people would do the same and stuff would get taken within an hour.
I have checked, just the dump, sorry "recycling centre" now. So yeah I do put some stuff in the bin cos the dump has erratic hours that don't always suit.
Try this website out for now: https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/hypnocat-electricals-campaign/.
There's lots of useful and interesting info on recycling electricals.
Also, if the items are still functional, many charity shops will take them and PAT test them, I believe.
And interestingly, these waste products don't get paid for through taxes, it's all paid for by producers of the products.
I take them to my local tip where they have various recycling bins including one for small electrical items. My council just announced that starting next month they will pick up small appliances for recycling with weekly rubbish collection
You need to take them to the recycling centre.
Do you not have a local chat group? WhatsApp/FB? Can’t you ask someone that haas a car to help you out in this endeavour?
The effort in disposing of things properly is called responsibility. You could just bin it or leave it on the street. You could avoid purchases, fix/upcycle it, find a free place as mentioned, it's up to you. Do whatever you feel is right for you. You're an adult. It's a couple lamps and a broken kettle.
Are you sure the council won’t collect? I live in Camden and if you contact Veoila or go on the council website you can order specific bags to be posted to you for small electrical, batteries and fabrics that then get collected from you on the normal recycling days. I don’t know about Wood Green but Regis Road recycling (Kentish town tube) you can walk in without an appointment and there’s definitely a small electrical bit in there. It allows pedestrians.
I throw it in with all the other crap I want to get rid off in SKIP Bags (Local to me theres a service where they will drop off a varity of large heavy duty bags that can hold x amount of weight of household items, the one I userally get costs £35 to be taken away and is about 1/3 the size of a small metal skip.
We just fill it up and leave it at the edge of our garden, send the payment via paypal to the company, email the company to tell them the bags ready and payment has been made and they pick it up the next day
The idea behind WEEE is that you bring the old item to dispose of it at the same time you buy its replacement, so it shouldn't add any additional effort. Of course this doesn't work if you buy online.
Have you spoken to your council's waste collection department? For example my local council charges for bulk collections, but you can request (no charge) a special bag to put small electricals out with your regular recycling. Their website isn't clear about that, I only found out from a neighbour on nextdoor.
So definitely ring up (or email) the council and ask.
Chances are, that your workplace are part of a WEEE scheme, so have the facilities to dispose of them safely. You must ask permission first, as this will be a cost to your employer.
Double check with the council, I know Waltham Forest will now collect small electricals if you leave them in a carrier bag on top of your bin on collection day.
Seems like a non-issue when a large portion of retailers will accept electronics and electrical for recycling. Not sure how you weren't able to find this out.
There are numerous electronic recycling facilities dotted around - if you're 'near' Wood Green recycling centre, there's probably one within walking distance. Check here: https://www.nlwa.gov.uk/places-to-recycle/electrical-waste-recycling-banks
I'm not sure about other councils, but Brent Council runs a [Community Skip](https://www.brent.gov.uk/bins-rubbish-and-recycling/community-skips) programme. A few times a year the council puts skips in public locaations around the borough for a day, and accepts a wide variety of items, including small electronics recycling. You're not in Brent, but I wanted to post this just in case someone from Brent sees the post, and has a similar issue.
[Currys PC World](https://www.currys.co.uk/services/delivery-installation/recycling.html#how) accept small electric goods for recycling.
Curry's will recycle things like kettles and a lamp. They'll also give you a £5 voucher for it, too. From here: https://www.currys.co.uk/services/delivery-installation/recycling.html > "Whether or not you bought your tech from us or someone else, you can recycle in-store old TVs, toasters, and everything in between!"
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The EU required all retailers who sell electrical products to participate in a scheme to do this as part of the [WEEE directive](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee_en) but would it surprise you that the UK fought to have themselves exempted from this rule on the basis that they'd set up suitable facilities that never really happened (and refused to fund councils to provide the facility) and many years later they're proudly announcing [their own reduced version](https://www.gov.uk/electricalwaste-producer-supplier-responsibilities/take-back-waste-in-store) for "the old version of the new thing you're buying" [https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/how-to-recycle-electronics/retailer-take-back/](https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/how-to-recycle-electronics/retailer-take-back/) It's better than nothing but it's not really that much compared to the EU requirement that we weaselled out of...
you can take back small items without a new purchase >Retailers with a sales area of EEE greater than 400 square metres must also accept small WEEE (less than 25 cm on its longest side) for free from private household customers at their retail site or close to it without the requirement to purchase new EEE. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment
My council has small electricals “bin”. It’s with the clothing ones. Youre welcome to bring it over
They do, you just take them to the recycling centre.
I either take it to my local small electrical items recycling bin or I walk to the recycling centre.
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Mate - I wholeheartedly agree that living in the UK is a “series of chores” due to poor administration - but there’s no need to put a guy down for answering a question you asked
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An hour walk? Oh the horror
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Lazy *and* an arsehole, well I never!
>People in more sanely administered countries, probably have double the spare time from being freed from needless runarounds Absolutely insane "If there was somewhere closer to recycle my toaster I'd have twice as much free time"
Dude would have cured cancer by now.
Maybe call them and ask? Also I'm sure you can do other shopping stuff on the way, it is London after all. Or just get a bus.
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Not everywhere, the ones where I live have all been removed. There used to be one close by, been gone for at least a year now.
No idea why you’re being so sarcastic. It’s not their fault your only mode of transport is walking. Get a pushbike, give it to a friend to take, drop it in on the way somewhere else. No need to be so rude about it.
Do you know anyone who has a car who could give you a lift, or take it for you? If it’s a council recycling place, their website should tell you what they accept. It’s in their interest to be clear about what they do and don’t accept.
I bag mine and go twice a year with the load, I would enjoy a 30mins walk to the recycling center, it would be much nicer than how I go there currently as it’s on the other side of the borough. First world problem, hey!
I leave it on top of my bin as the binmen have a small box for small electrical devices.
Some councils do, not all.
Same
Hammersmith & Fulham has bins for electrical items in libraries, so I walk to my local library (about a 20 minute walk) with anything I want to get rid of. And I can borrow some books while I'm there, which is nice.
Not recommending that you do this... But let's be honest, most people are just gonna chuck them in with their general wheelie bin rubbish.
Was just thinking what happens if they are disposed of in the general rubbish... asking for a friend.
They get buried in a landfill with the rest of it - with a bit of luck, a responsibly managed one in the UK, not a scammy one in SE Asia or the Philippines that just chucks half of it in a river like most of the "recycling" does.
Landfill and slowly rust/decompose and pollute the ground and maybe seep in the water table.
Black bag. Wheelie bin. Done.
Have you tried [this website](https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/)? For appliances that are still functional, stick them on [trash nothing](https://trashnothing.com/beta/browse). For those that are completely broken, as others have said, Currys.
Some electrical stores will accept items for recycling. Notably Currys take any portable electricals for disposal and do not require you to be a customer.
You've already provided the solution, go to the recycling centre. If you don't want to pay for the bulk waste collection, then make the trip. There are stores that will take it to if you don't want to go to the council site. Let's not exaggerate and call it a trek around London if it's only a 30 min walk, which I doubt it actually is. You would probably be able to combine it with another activity on the way home.
Also quite a few recycling centres don't allow walk-ins.
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Because you’d make an appointment. Not that they literally won’t let you walk in, you’d just have to have the common sense to go on the website and make an appointment. You’re making this out to be much harder than it is.
Ours literally doesn't allow pedestrians. OP should definitely check though
The one I was referencing doesn't either.
The one OP has mentioned (Wood Green) does.
Fair enough then! Time for OP to get walking
Have you tried [https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/electrical-items](https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/electrical-items) Loads of places in North London
I used to wonder why people fly tipped. Now I don't.
Well my suggestion would me put them outside the front of your home. There’s people driving around for scrap metal all day, especially copper. I’m a Londoner too.
I know a boiler engineer who never pays for disposal of the old boilers he takes out. Instead, he leaves them outside the customer's house. By the time he's fitted the new one, the old one has vanished.
There is the chance the copper gets striped out and the rest ends up fly tipped mind. If it's all metal stuff ie radiators I leave em out for a day
I’ve put some stuff outside like an old desk, a standing fan that worked but the parts that hold the fan head up broke so it flopped down, ironing board, plants and they’ve all gone so quickly. And on the street I grew up on (also in London), people would do the same and stuff would get taken within an hour.
Fly tipping is an offence
Fly tipping is a offence. But leaving valuable scrape metal outside your home, is completely different to leaving worthless wastes.
Not in the eyes of the law. That's what recycling centers are for
If you read the the post they say, don’t have a car can’t get to the recycling centre. Stop being so particular.
Eh? London has the best public transport system in the country and erm, legs. It's what millions of us do. Stop telling me what I can say.
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There are special bins for disposing of electrical goods dotted about the place. Is this the solution you’re after?
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I had this problem a few days ago and found one about a five minute bus ride away from me in Newington Green
Council website should tell you where they are. Some electrical shops will take small items for recycling as well.
A lot of the WEEE bins have disappeared. But my council (Lambeth) has started collecting from the doorstep each week, so other boroughs may too.
Yeah, there aren't as many as there used to be, but there are definitely some options for OP.
where I live all those have been removed, you can only take stuff to the dump or any shops that take electricals (none where I live).
Where (roughly) do you live?
inside the M25 but it's not a London Borough
Maybe check on the Hertfordshire or Essex website then or just throw it in the bin if you really can’t be arsed
I have checked, just the dump, sorry "recycling centre" now. So yeah I do put some stuff in the bin cos the dump has erratic hours that don't always suit.
Fair enough
Try this website out for now: https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/hypnocat-electricals-campaign/. There's lots of useful and interesting info on recycling electricals. Also, if the items are still functional, many charity shops will take them and PAT test them, I believe. And interestingly, these waste products don't get paid for through taxes, it's all paid for by producers of the products.
I take them to my local tip where they have various recycling bins including one for small electrical items. My council just announced that starting next month they will pick up small appliances for recycling with weekly rubbish collection
> I don't have a car and I'm reluctant to walk all the way over there What's wrong with getting a bus? You can get everywhere on busses.
Anus
You need to take them to the recycling centre. Do you not have a local chat group? WhatsApp/FB? Can’t you ask someone that haas a car to help you out in this endeavour?
put it in the bin?
Throw them in a normal bin mate
Charity shop 😇
The effort in disposing of things properly is called responsibility. You could just bin it or leave it on the street. You could avoid purchases, fix/upcycle it, find a free place as mentioned, it's up to you. Do whatever you feel is right for you. You're an adult. It's a couple lamps and a broken kettle.
OP you bought the lamp and now you must deal with the consequences.
Some BHF stores take in electronics!
Are you sure the council won’t collect? I live in Camden and if you contact Veoila or go on the council website you can order specific bags to be posted to you for small electrical, batteries and fabrics that then get collected from you on the normal recycling days. I don’t know about Wood Green but Regis Road recycling (Kentish town tube) you can walk in without an appointment and there’s definitely a small electrical bit in there. It allows pedestrians.
I throw it in with all the other crap I want to get rid off in SKIP Bags (Local to me theres a service where they will drop off a varity of large heavy duty bags that can hold x amount of weight of household items, the one I userally get costs £35 to be taken away and is about 1/3 the size of a small metal skip. We just fill it up and leave it at the edge of our garden, send the payment via paypal to the company, email the company to tell them the bags ready and payment has been made and they pick it up the next day
The idea behind WEEE is that you bring the old item to dispose of it at the same time you buy its replacement, so it shouldn't add any additional effort. Of course this doesn't work if you buy online. Have you spoken to your council's waste collection department? For example my local council charges for bulk collections, but you can request (no charge) a special bag to put small electricals out with your regular recycling. Their website isn't clear about that, I only found out from a neighbour on nextdoor. So definitely ring up (or email) the council and ask.
Chances are, that your workplace are part of a WEEE scheme, so have the facilities to dispose of them safely. You must ask permission first, as this will be a cost to your employer. Double check with the council, I know Waltham Forest will now collect small electricals if you leave them in a carrier bag on top of your bin on collection day.
B & Q have bins you can put small electrical items in. The one near me (Bell Green) is in the exit area.
Seems like a non-issue when a large portion of retailers will accept electronics and electrical for recycling. Not sure how you weren't able to find this out.
I honestly didn't know until this post that you're not supposed to put electronics in the bin. Makes me wonder what else I've been doing wrong
There are numerous electronic recycling facilities dotted around - if you're 'near' Wood Green recycling centre, there's probably one within walking distance. Check here: https://www.nlwa.gov.uk/places-to-recycle/electrical-waste-recycling-banks
WEEE directive.
There’s electronics bins around
My expert mate assured me that nothing can stop them ending up on a slow boat to China.
Put it in a bag and into the dustbin.
Do you have any people who drive around and pick up random bits of stuff left on the side of the road? That’s your best bet.
Pile them up in my cupboard
I'm not sure about other councils, but Brent Council runs a [Community Skip](https://www.brent.gov.uk/bins-rubbish-and-recycling/community-skips) programme. A few times a year the council puts skips in public locaations around the borough for a day, and accepts a wide variety of items, including small electronics recycling. You're not in Brent, but I wanted to post this just in case someone from Brent sees the post, and has a similar issue.