Tag: Material Focus

Material Focus is reopening its Electricals Recycling Fund today, offering £750,000 of funding to support projects that make it easier for more people to reuse and recycle old and unwanted small household electricals. This follows previous rounds of funding that provided £1.8 million to fund over 40 UK projects, which will make it easier for over 10 million people to repair, donate or recycle their unwanted electricals. Material Focus’s research indicates that while 80% of consumers believe in recycling, many still discard electricals rather than recycling or reusing them. With…

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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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