New £2.5 million Electricals Recycling Fund launched to help tackle the growing e-waste challenge

Material Focus, the not-for-profit leading the UK’s Recycle Your Electricals campaign, is launching a new £2.5 million funding opportunity to make it easier for UK householders to recycle their electricals. Material Focus’ “Electricals Recycling Fund” will fund two types of projects – those seeking to add household electricals collection services using existing infrastructure, and those seeking to innovate new methods for collecting small household electricals for recycling. Waste electricals are the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and in the UK we are hoarding 527 million electrical items, and…

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