Don’t add to e-waste mountain, campaign urges UK shoppers
by Dan Milmo from Environment | The Guardian on (#5SCKZ)
Material Focus says tech superseded by purchases on Black Friday and beyond can be donated or recycled
Black Friday and pre-Christmas spending sprees will create an e-waste mountain as 5m unwanted electrical items are binned or put in storage in Britain, a campaign group has warned.
The end-of-November sales event triggers the commercial run-up to Christmas and is followed days later by the Cyber Monday e-commerce frenzy, with retailers offering cut-price deals on a range of goods from mobile phones to laptops and smart speakers.
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