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leonard085:
Here in Ireland
We pay a tax on all electrical item purchased, to cover the cost of recycling them in a safe way
Like the UK, most of the recycling is run by private companies, and try to charge me when I
bring in scrap electrical items
These companies in Ireland get paid from the taxes collected on sales and should not be charging
a second time
I don't know what the system is in the UK, but I thought this was a EU wide System
Here is a link to some info
 http://www.hse.gov.uk/waste/waste-electrical.htm

OldLes:
Right guys, I take it I must scrap it all, no use to anybody. OK then.
Leonard085, I am on the Isle of Man, where we do thinks (sort of) our own way. We are NOT members of the EU, but because of ties and agreements with the UK, we tend to copy UK/EU rules on many things. Our amenity sites are part Gov, part local authority, and I think one is private. The best one, we knew it as "Harrods" was local authority run. Two old guys were there, and ran it well. Scrap metal went in skips, electrical stuff in "the end shed" where there was a 13A socket we could use. You could take anything. Excellent service. One day there was a Rayuburn OF22 oil fired cooker in the skip. One of the guys helped me to get at it, removing both burners, control valve, doors and hotplate as spares for my own OF22.
Then the Gov took it over! A petition was raised before the "improvements" took place opposing it, but to no avail. Many thousands of £££s later, after being closed for months, it reopened with about six guys in there, the old two having been retired. Big crawler with four finger grapper, a little "Jeep" style thing, new office for the men, new sheds, but no power, and designed with "One Way" to throw in skips FIRST on the way in, encouraging everybody to junk stuff, rather than leave it for second users. Anything decent mysteriously seems to disappear into the office, nothing worthwhile ever being available to the general public. Big signs proclaim how much was "recycled" each month. I feel like replacing "Recycled" with "Scrapped". Reuse has certainly long since been stopped. The TVs were a case where at one centre, they used to scratch a big X on the screen, to ensure their uselessness, but if you got there in time, you could take stuff. Then the £8 charge to drop off a TV, with I think £25 for a freezer. They seem to have a few big CRT TVs behing locked doors in the rain, marked "Paid" on the screens, but no sign of any LCD jobs. I think if they look "possibles", they go into the office. It must cost between 5 and 10 time the money to operate it since the "improvements", the only satified people being the Government and 6 workmen.
Les.

Turnip:
Hi Young Les.

The lack of paragraphs gives trouble to older Quuq folks, me included - Guess your'e one of those youngsters with good eyesight - Chris.

Davy:
@leonard085

We can just take any scrap to the  Local Corporation tip, in my area you can I can't speak for other councils, they have huge containers for various items  and there's a fenced off place with a shed, you often find duff tellies, fridges and washing machines, I've seen em' wrecking the bad ones just for the copper wire and aluminium.... and others they pile up gently, very gently!

That EU is a law unto itself, you can't do this er that, you can't clod this er that, I'm still not sure about what parts you are not supposed to 'bin'... apart from Nicad batteries.

Here, you can take rubbish to the tip yourself or give em' a tenner (£10) and they will come and collect whatever.

One guy I know brought a load of  CRT tellies to look at he bought from a guy in a huge 'white van', when he told me where he got them from, I whipped the back of a couple before he could unload some - "no thanks don't bother, leave em on  ya van", paid over a grand he did they were all nicely wrapped and looked spanking new....   some of em had no chassis or parts missing.

Dave

OldLes:
Turnip (Chris), sorry about that. I had a bit of trouble with tinternet, so I actually wrote it in my word processor, then jusy copy/paste across. I am certain it had paragraphs there in abundance, but obviously formatting lost in transfer, and I never noticed.
Of course you can wear glasses like me (and most here?). And you will likely have a bench magnifier, stick that in front of the screen.
Cheers, Very Old Les.

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