Warwickshire News Mine

Spring is traditionally a popular time to blitz the home, when electrical items end up in the waste stream which could easily be recycled in the small electrical item banks.

The banks have been placed at a variety of locations from leisure centres to pub car parks in Warwick district, Nuneaton and Bedworth, North Warwickshire and Rugby.

The banks are able to accept small items such as phones, remote controls, VCRs, digiboxes, electronic toys, kettles, irons, hairdryers, Christmas lights, small DIY tools, radios and clocks.

By recycling unwanted electricals and electronics residents can reduce landfill and save valuable raw materials. For example, one household iron contains enough metal to produce 13 steel cans.

Large electronic items such as TV monitors, fridges, and computers cannot be placed in the banks but can be taken along to any of Warwickshire County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centres. To find your nearest site and check opening hours visit the website at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/hwrc

Some of Warwickshire’s voluntary and community organisations will also gladly accept unwanted working electrical items, which are inspected, checked and resold – often with a guarantee. To find your local reuse scheme log onto http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/reuse

Residents can also try offering their unwanted electrical items through online reuse networks such as Community Freebay http://www.communityfreebay.co.uk Freegle http://www.freegle.org.uk or Freecycle http://www.freecycle.org

And, as the digital switchover begins this month, why not reuse your old TV set and give it a new lease of life.
The switchover affects TVs which receive signal from an aerial. After switchover, transmitters will send a digital rather than an analogue signal.
Old analogue sets can be retained as a backup for the household to watch DVD and VHS films, hooked up to a games console or converted to receive digital signals with the aid of an increasingly affordable set-top box.

WEEE Banks locations:

North Warwickshire
Woolpack Way/Long Street Car Park, Atherstone.
Park Road Car Park, Coleshill
Long Street Car Park, Dordon

Rugby Borough
Ashlawn Road, Rugby
Jubilee Street, Rugby
Featherbed Lane, Rugby
Ken Marriott Centre, Rugby
The Kent, Rugby
Stretton on Dunsmore, Rugby
Shilton Village, Rugby

Warwick District
ASDA, Chesterton Drive, Leamington Spa
Kennedy Square, Leamington Spa
Covent Garden Car Park, Leamington Spa
Sainsbury’s, Shires Retail Park, Leamington Spa
Rugby Road Shopping Precinct, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa
Sainsbury’s, Saltisford, Warwick
Tesco, Emscote Road, Warwick
Warwick School, Myton Road, Warwick

Nuneaton and Bedworth
Black Horse Public House car park, Coventry Road, Exhall
Black Bank Public House car park, 4 Black Bank, Exhall
Civic Hall car park (Spital Fields), Bedworth
Bulkington Recreation Ground, School Road car park
Cock and Bear Public House, Queens Road, Nuneaton
White Lion Public House, Croft Road, Nuneaton
Attleborough Liberal Club Car Park, Nuneaton
Pauls Land Car Park, Lutterworth Road, Nuneaton
Jubilee Sports Centre, Greenmore Road, Nuneaton
Sainsburys, Vicarage Road, Nuneaton

Link to WCC