Welcome to Material Focus

We’re on a mission to stop the valuable, critical and finite materials inside electricals from going to waste. Together with partners we are transforming the UK’s e-waste system, and empowering more people to reuse and recycle their electricals through our Recycle Your Electricals campaign. For the good of people, our economy, and our planet.

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Latest

Our in-depth research, Industry briefings, targeted investment and inspiring communications are making a difference. Millions more people have started recycling their electricals.

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    Join The Great Cable Challenge

    We’re calling on households, local authorities, retailers, and community projects to take part in The Great Cable Challenge for International E-Waste Day (14th October).

    Download our Guide and communications material to find out how you can help save valuable materials like copper from going to waste.

    Download the toolkit
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    New £1m Circular Electricals Fund

    Our £1m Circular Electricals Fund aimed at keeping electricals and their materials in use for longer is now closed. Our judges have been busy reviewing some brilliant submissions for material recovery, new designs, and business models. We’ll be announcing the winners very soon!

     

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    Half a billion FastTech items binned

    Our latest research shows the demand for FastTech (small, cheap, mass-produced electricals) is booming in the UK – and it’s fuelling a waste crisis.

    Read the full media release for our research and go to Recycle Your Electricals Recycling locator to find your nearest recycling point.

    Read the media release

Our impact

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    Recycle Your Electricals

    Our award-winning, highly effective messenger HypnoCat has now hypnotised residents in over 300 areas across the UK.

    See the campaign
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    12.5 million more people

    From the Orkneys to the Isles of Scilly, we’ve funded over 70 pilots to make it easier for over 12.5 million more people to recycle their electricals closer to home

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    Over 3 million

    More and more people are using our Recycle Your Electricals website to confidently delete their data, sort their electricals and find their nearest drop off points to fix, donate and recycle them

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    48% more people

    Nearly half the people who see our campaign say they plan to recycle their electricals in future. We’re making electrical recycling the easy and obvious choice for millions of people.

Work with us

We work with hundreds of local authorities, businesses and local communities. Partnership is critical to making it easier for us all to fix, donate and recycle our electricals. We’d love to hear from you if you’re interested in protecting our planet’s precious resources.

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