Material Focus is a free service run by an independent not-for-profit organisation. We’re on a mission to stop electricals being hoarded and thrown away, and ensure they’re reused and recycled instead.
Discarded electricals are one of the fastest growing sources of waste in the UK and in the world. Most people in the UK think that recycling is the right thing to do, but it’s still too hard to do – less than half of us think it’s easy to get rid of unwanted electricals.
Our funding comes from UK WEEE Regulations Compliance Fees. These are paid by electrical producers if they don’t meet annual recycling targets set by the government. The fees are set higher than the average costs of collections to encourage collections to take place. We manage spending of the fees to support reuse and recycling of electricals in the UK.
You can drop off your items at any of our collection points, located at community buildings across the region.
We also run free repair cafe’s in certain regions to recycle broken items.
About us: About Material Focus – What we do – WEEE
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Check your region: Electrical recycling – Where to recycle & donate – Recycle Your Electricals