This week the 21st June – 27th June is Recycle Week in the UK. This years Recycle Week is focusing on one material stream in particular which is small waste electrical and electronic equipment. (WEEE)

The aim of Recycle Week is too make people think about the many easy ways that we all can recycle less waste and make more of the current resources we all have.

Many people in the UK admit to hanging onto old electronic devices even if they no longer have a use for them. A recent survey found that 40% of respondents hang onto old electronic devices as they feel too sad to part with them, 41% hope that the old item might come in handy one day, 23% said that electrical items are too valuable to thrown away and 29% keep them because they don’t know how to dispose of them correctly.

In schools across the whole of England, Recycle Now is working with the British Heart Foundation to make it easy for pupils to dig out unused electronic devices and donate them to a good cause.

If you have any small electrical items such as kettles, electric toothbrushes, hair-dryers, toasters or even unused power tools then dig them out and support Recycle Week 2010 by taking them too your local British Heart Foundation Store, where you can donate them and help raise money for charity. Other small and more valuable electrical devices such as laptops, mobile phones, MP3 players and SAT NAVS can be recycled for cash payments at popular recycling sites including Mirror Go Green or Mopay.