{"id":807,"date":"2015-09-08T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/?p=807"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:03:47","slug":"the-essential-guide-to-recycling-small-household-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/the-essential-guide-to-recycling-small-household-items\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Guide to Recycling Small Household Items"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nowadays, we\u2019re all too quick to throw seemingly broken appliances away \u2013 each a year an estimated 2 million tonnes of WEEE (Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment) items are disposed of by households and businesses. That equates to over 6 million electrical items! Sadly, a large proportion of these appliances end up in landfills, which isn\u2019t necessarily the best place for them\u2026<\/p>\n

In many cases it is possible to give the item a new lease of life through some simple repairs, the price of which is often cheaper and makes more sense than buying a new item \u2013 an average 170 million new electrical items are purchased in the UK each year! Also, don\u2019t forget to check whether the item is under warrantee and, as such, if you\u2019re eligible for a replacement.<\/p>\n

Click here for a PDF version<\/a> of this guide to downloand or print!<\/p>\n

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Click here for a PDF version<\/a> of this guide to downloand or print!<\/p>\n

Useful links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find Your Local Recycling Centre<\/a>
\nAgainst Breast Cancer Bra Recycling<\/a>
\nBreast Cancer Now Recycling<\/a>
\nOxfam Fonebank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February Competition Nowadays, we\u2019re all too quick to throw seemingly broken appliances away \u2013 each a year an estimated 2 million tonnes of WEEE (Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment) items are disposed of by households and businesses. That equates to over 6 million electrical items! Sadly, a large proportion of these appliances end up in landfills, which isn\u2019t necessarily the best place for them\u2026 In many cases it is possible to give the item a new lease of life through some simple repairs, the price of which is often cheaper and makes more sense than buying a new item \u2013 an average 170 million new electrical items are purchased in the UK each year! Also, don\u2019t forget to check whether the item is under warrantee…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glotechrepairs.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}