Derbyshire County Council : Clear out your old electricals

3 January 2017

Are you having a clear out after Christmas? If you unearth any broken or unwanted electricals they could win you a cash prize. Dig them out and take them to your local household waste recycling centre for your chance to win one of 15 £100 cash prizes.

From hair-dryers to hedge-trimmers, fairy lights to fridges and toasters to TVs, there's a wide range of household appliances you can take to our recycling centres. From 2 January until 19 February 2017 you can exchange them for a golden ticket − which means you could be quids in.

Simply pick up your golden ticket from a member of staff at any of our nine recycling centres, type in your unique ticket number online and find out if you're an instant winner. The more items you recycle, the more tickets you'll get.

Our Deputy Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport and Infrastructure Councillor Paul Dunn said:

'This is an ideal time of year for residents to sort out their electrical items. Some may be broken and others may have been replaced by newer versions. We want all the broken and unwanted ones for recycling as this can help to save money for all of us.

'It is a worrying fact that we currently throw away more than a quarter of the electrical items we buy in the UK rather than recycling them. In Derbyshire, this contributes to the £20m cost of dealing with waste which isn't recycled each year − money which could be better spent on vital services at a time when councils are getting less money from central government.

'If every household in Derbyshire took just one electrical item it would mean more than 333,000 appliances being recycled, saving precious metals and other valuable materials they contain as well as saving council tax-payers' money. So dust down those broken, old or unused items and take them to your local recycling centre from 2 January for your chance to win £100.'

The competition and campaign is being funded by Advantage Waste Brokers − the contractor which works on our behalf to collect and recycle electrical items taken to our recycling centres.

Electrical goods can be exchanged for a golden ticket at the following recycling centres:

• Ashbourne (Mayfield Road)
• Bolsover (Buttermilk Lane)
• Buxton (Waterswallows Road)
• Glossop (Melandra Road)
• Ilkeston (Manners Avenue Industrial Estate)
• Loscoe (Heanor)
• Newhall (Swadlincote)
• Northwood (Matlock)
• Stonegravels (Chesterfield).

All electrical appliances are accepted including:

• coffee makers
• electric toothbrushes
• electric garden equipment
• fairy lights
• fridges, freezers and fridge-freezers
• game consoles
• irons
• kettles
• lamps
• laptops, tablets and PCs
• microwaves
• music systems
• phones
• power tools
• printers
• radios
• sat navs
• shavers
• slow cookers
• straighteners and hairdryers
• washers and dryers
• vacuums.

Get a full list of the other items you can take to the recycling centres and their locations

Please make sure all personal data has been removed from items such as laptops, mobile phones or tablets before you take them to a recycling centre.