Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away
Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away
Electrical items such as vapes, fans, cables and USB sticks can all be recycled .
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Nearly half a billion small electricals such as cables, lights, mini fans and disposable vapes, were thrown away last year, research from Material Focus has shown.
The average home also has thirty unused electrical items gathering dust, the research shows.
Based on the responses it calculates that 471m "Fast Tech" items were thrown away in the UK last year, including:
They all contain valuable raw materials, such as copper wires and lithium batteries, which can be recovered through the recycling process.
Every year consumers throw away 9 billion tons of cables, toys, vapes, novelty clothes and similar devices which they often don't recognise as e-waste, according to research from the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Forum.
It is funded by fees paid by electrical producers when they don't meet their government recycling targets.
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