From Recycle Your Electricals
Electrical recycling near you: Recycle Your Electricals
Recycle Your Electricals has a postcode search for electrical drop-off points. It covers anything with a plug, battery or cable, and lists repair and donation points as well as recycling.
- UK
- Free shop take-back
Key facts
- The campaign is run by Material Focus, a not-for-profit funded under the UK's electrical waste rules.
- When you buy a new electrical item, the shop must offer a free way to recycle your old one of the same type. Many take it back in store.
- Smaller shops and online sellers can pay into a scheme that funds council tips instead. They then send you to a tip.
- Shops that take items back in store must give you at least 28 days to bring the old one in. It does not matter where you bought it.
- Large shops must also take very small electricals, under 25cm on the longest side, even if you buy nothing.
- That rule applies where the shop's electrical sales area is over 400 square metres.
- Recycle Your Electricals says more than 22,000 shops take part in shop take-back.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
Based on Recycle Your Electricals' own pages.
How to use this service
- Take out any batteries and bulbs.
- Delete your data and remove SIM and memory cards.
- Put the items in a bag you can carry.
- Search your postcode for the nearest drop-off point.
Mistakes to avoid
- Recycle Your Electricals says batteries and electricals thrown in a bin can be crushed and start fires in bin lorries and recycling centres.
Accepted items
- Anything with a plug, battery or cable
- Phones and laptops
- Kettles and toasters
- Vapes
Restrictions
- Shop take-back covers an item of the same type as the one you buy.
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