E-Waste Recycling Organisations Promised Financial Relief
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 10:32:41
Every industry around the world has been impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and recycling has been especially affected as a result of forced closures of many facilities and sites involved in the collection and processing of recyclable materials.
The good news is that those businesses that deal with electronic waste, including everything from old mobile phones to large home appliances and beyond, will be able to seek support during this unprecedented time of disruption.
This is all thanks to the WEEE Fund, which has announced that it is making over £5 million available to recycling firms as a direct result of COVID-19. This cash will be offered as a mixture of grants and loans and will be used to prop up organisations that have seen the influx of waste slow to a trickle or stop altogether as councils up and down the country stopped kerbside collections and shuttered recycling centres in response to the spread of the virus and the implementation of the government’s lockdown conditions.
In the past few days a number of recycling centres have begun to reopen in certain areas, creating significant queuing as residents and businesses alike turned up to dispose of the waste that has been generated in the last couple of months.
Even with the proposals surrounding the easing of the lockdown, it seems inevitable that this will be a protracted problem for recycling in the UK, and so this offer of significant financial relief will be welcomed by those recyclers that are facing up to at least another half a year of disruption.
Of course, the benefit for companies that focus on mobile phone recycling is that they can still get customers to send in old handsets in the post, bypassing recycling centres altogether. The fact that smartphone sales have plummeted and fewer people are upgrading at the moment might temper this news.
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