TVs AND FRIDGES TO BE GIVEN NEW LEASE OF LIFE AT ENVIRONCOM’S NEW REUSE AND RECYCLING FACILITY IN EDMONTON, LONDON
-EnvironCom also creates 50 new local jobs & training opportunities-
EnvironCom opened a brand new, state-of-the-art facility in Edmonton, North London which will give 75,000 items of electronic equipment a new lease of life every year as well as creating 50 new local jobs and training opportunities.
Each year, the UK generates over a million tonnes of WEEE, thanks to our desire to own the very latest electronic gadgets and electrical items. What many people do not realise, is that of the old items we simply throw away, all of it can be recycled – or even reused.
EnvironCom’s new 55,000 sq ft London site is about just that - giving old electricals a new lease of life. The facility is capable of handling all waste streams of WEEE including flat screen TVs, iPads, washing machines and fridges, which will be tested by EnvironCom’s team of engineers before being given the all clear for reuse or recycling. The company’s white goods engineers who have been recruited from the surrounding area will receive specialist training and support from EnvironCom’s trained specialists that work at Grantham, to equip them with necessary skills to give a second lease of life to many hundreds of products a week.
Sean Feeney, CEO of EnvironCom comments: “We're delighted to open our brand new facility in Edmonton. Today is a big day for waste electrical recycling in London and it is fantastic news that we have managed to create so many local jobs and provide training opportunities. It demonstrates our commitment to doing the right thing with waste so it doesn’t cost the earth. One of our missions over the coming months is to educate Londoners about waste electrical reuse and recycling, so they can make informed decisions when buying or throwing away unwanted items.”
EnvironCom has set an ambitious target to re-use up to 30% of all of the WEEE that comes onto the site from homes and businesses in and around London through one of its retail partners or other third party associations. The best of the re-use products will go to charitable organisations throughout London and the South including British Heart Foundation and Sense.
EnvironCom’s ‘reuse’ and ‘recycling’ model is substantially more beneficial to both the environment and the community than traditional methods of handling WEEE waste. It takes twenty times more energy to mine aluminium than to recycle it and it takes twenty times more energy to turn a scrap machine into a new machine than it does to repair and re-use it.
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