recycling of electrical appliances United Kingdom

... in a toner cartridge can take up to 1000 years to degrade and toner itself is considered hazardous waste. Not the sort of stuff you’d want to bury at the bottom of your garden - especially when you consider that a toner cartridge is 97% recyclable. To put this in perspective, recycling 100,000 cartridges will save over 9.5 tonnes of aluminium, 40 tonnes of plastic and 1 million litres of oil. We all like to think that we’re socially responsible and environmentally aware so why do so few of us recycle our toners? In short, many people are simply unaware that their cartridges can be recycled.

...Environcom are the UK's largest independent electrical re-use and recycling specialist of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE). We sell refurbished white goods such as Fridge Freezers and Washing Machines at very low prices all over the UK and Worldwide. Our motto is ‘WEEE doesn’t have to cost the earth’. What this means is we are a recycling company that produces working and sale...