Electrical cable recycling

Join The Great Cable Challenge for International E-Waste day!  14th October 2024

We’ve all got one of ‘those’ drawers, filled with broken chargers and unused cables. According to our latest research, in the UK we bin or stash away 627 million cables – enough to go to the moon AND BACK!

But did you know those cables are full of precious copper which, if recycled, could meet the UK’s growing demand of copper needed in our green future?!  and with copper becoming more scarce, demand soaring, and the detrimental environmental and social impacts of mining for raw materials – how can we all help? The solution is surprisingly simple; harness what we already have.

Enter The Great Cable Challenge! – a UK-wide challenge to recycle 1 million cables to mark International E-Waste Day. If 1 million of us all recycled one cable, we could save at least 5,000kg of copper from going to waste. 

So bag up your old cables – or any old electricals in your ‘drawer of doom’! – ready to recycle this October and bring them to any of Council’s 11 Household Recycling Centres, click here for locations and opening times of Council's Household Recycling Centres.

                            Please click here for full details of  "The Great Gable Guide"