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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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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    Electricals Recycling Fund open

    It still needs to be easier to recycle. We’re looking for pilots that are introducing or expanding local recycling options – including on-street bring banks, community collection points and refurbishment of existing bring banks.

    Start your application
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    Saving valuable materials

    Since 2020, we’ve shifted the habits of a nation, with 9.2 million more adults now reusing and recycling their electricals. Explore our five-year impact report to discover how we’re transforming the UK’s e-waste system and changing behaviours.

     

    Read the report
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    New vapes toolkit available now!

    Every week, over 6 million vapes and pods are thrown away in the UK when they could’ve been recycled. 

    We need your help to tackle this problem. By using our toolkit you can ensure vapes, and other electricals, are always recycled separately and kept out of the bin. 

    Download the toolkit

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 Orkney 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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