Last month, Donegal County Council teamed up with WEEE Ireland to organise 8 free ‘one-off’ electrical goods recycling days across the county.
One of the nine articulated lorries that were filled with 40 tonnes of waste electrical items during free recycling in Co Donegal last month.
It was a resounding success with over 40 tonnes of all types of large and small waste electrical and electronic goods collected for recycling, filling a total of 9 articulated lorries.
The recycling days took places over the course of 3 weekends in Falcarragh, Carrigart, Bunbeg, Buncrana, Lifford, Killybegs, Bundoran, and Glencolmcille.
WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) was set up to allow householders to bring back their old electrical or electronic items to retailers for free. This means that if a retailer has given a householder 24 hours notice of delivery and your old item is ready for collection the retailer must collect the old item on delivery of the new one, completely free of charge. Larger electrical stores with sales that are greater than 400 sq metres must take back smaller electrical and electronic items (less than 25cm) free of charge without any obligation to purchase a new one.
Meanwhile, you can bring back your waste electrical goods free of charge all year round to any one of the six recycling centres in Donegal namely: Carndonagh, Letterkenny, Laghey, Milford, Dungloe and Stranorlar.
All sizes and all types of old unwanted electrical goods or electronic goods are accepted for recycling free of charge, basically anything with a plug or a battery.
For more information on the free recycling of electrical or electronic goods contact recycling officer David Friel on 9176274 or waste awareness officer, Suzanne Bogan on 9176276.
(Source – Donegal Now – 11/09/2014)
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