Chesterfield residents urged to recycle household electricals

People in the Chesterfield area are being urged to give their unwanted household electricals a new lease of life for a chance to win £50.

Everyone who brings an appliance to Derbyshire County Council’s Bright Sparks re-use and recycling event will get the chance to enter into a prize draw to win shopping vouchers. The event run in partnership with Chesterfield Borough Council will take place on Sunday 24 July at Morrisons, Staveley. For more about the event click here.

Councillor Dean Collins, Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport and Infrastructure, said:-

“We ran one of these events in Hasland last year and it was very successful. More than 200 items of electrical equipment were brought to the event for re-use or recycling.

“Dealing with waste which residents put in their non-recycling bin costs us £20 million per year at a time when we’re getting less money from central Government to run council services. So it’s increasingly important that we recycle as much as we possibly can and all the electricals we collect at our Bright Sparks event will be put to good use.”

Councillor Chris Ludlow, Chesterfield Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, said:-

“We are always keen to work in partnership with the county council to support events like this because they help to get out the message about the importance of recycling.

“Recycling makes sense from an environmental point of view but for tax payers there is also a financial incentive for doing it because it helps keep council tax rates lower if less money is wasted on paying landfill tax charges to dispose of waste that could be recycled instead.”

Chesterfield borough residents can also now recycle small electrical items such as irons, mobile phones and hairdryers by placing them on top of the lid of their blue bin on collection day. Personal data from items such as phones, laptops and sat navs should be removed first.