Recycle your old phone chargers at Sainsburys now
August 4th, 2010 | ZoeCohenRecycle that charger!
Mobile phones are now essential life accessories but we have to keep up with the latest version. This means we all build up stocks of unwanted chargers that don’t fit other makes or models. One estimate is that there are c20 million chargers lying around homes unused – that’s 5,000 tonnes of waste.
The answer is coming for the future when a common charger is introduced across Europe after a common understanding was reached by Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments. But before then what do you do with all those chargers that lie cluttering up drawers or worse still, remain plugged into the wall draining electricity?
Well Sainsburys has the answer. The supermarket has launched a charger recycling service initially only running from 31 July 2010 to 28 August 2010 (but it says it will run a longer campaign again).
The initiative is being run as part of Sainsbury’s ‘Make The Difference Days’ scheme, which it uses to communicate its corporate responsibility “values” to customers via colleagues. The phone charger campaign itself was suggested by Sainsbury’s employees.
For more information visit http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/recycleyourcharger/
