{"id":2768,"date":"2019-12-16T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/?page_id=2768"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:11:33","slug":"electrical-and-electronic-equipment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/holiday-recycling\/electrical-and-electronic-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical and electronic equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>When the sparks gone from your old electricals, there are many things you can do to stop them from being disposed of! Whether it&#8217;s old mobile phones, busted power tools or simply a broken kettle or toaster, all your unwanted electrical items can be reused or recycled!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Reusing your electrical items<\/h2>\n<p>If they&#8217;ve got a fault that may be mended, take them to a Repair Cafe. Volunteer menders (often experts!) will attempt to fix anything from laptops to vacuum cleaners for a small donation. This saves them from going to waste and saves you money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/repair-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find your nearest repair cafe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also take them to your local electrical repair shop for more specialist repairs such as phone screens. You can find your nearest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/reuse-it\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Reuse It&#8217; section on the Recycle Devon website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re not broken and in good working condition, charity shops may accept them. Also, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/reuse\/donate-locally\" rel=\"noopener\">furniture charities<\/a> accept household goods to give to those in need, you can find out more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/reuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recycle Devon Reuse<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Recycling your electrical items<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Completely broken household electricals or electronic items can be dropped off at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/\">Recycling Centre<\/a> so the precious resources, especially metals, in them can be seperated and recycled. Did you know that 1 iron has enough steel to make 13 cans?!\u00a0 Recyclenow have more information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recyclenow.com\/recycling-knowledge\/how-is-it-recycled\/electricals\" rel=\"noopener\">how your electricals get recycled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/recycling-collections\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out if your district council offers household recycling.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/at-home\/a\" rel=\"noopener\">Have a look at the A-Z<\/a> to find out more about recycling specific electricals. e.g batteries in them or just the wiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>Also, don&#8217;t forget electrical items can also be hired from shops around Devon! Find out more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/reuse-it\" rel=\"noopener\">reuse directory.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the sparks gone from your old electricals, there are many things you can do to stop them from being disposed of! Whether it&#8217;s old mobile phones, busted power tools or simply a broken kettle or toaster, all your unwanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/holiday-recycling\/electrical-and-electronic-equipment\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Electrical and electronic equipment\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":2770,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2768","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 18:11:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2768\/revisions\/3673"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}