Recycling household electrical items

Batteries and vapes

Do not put batteries in any of your normal household bins. This includes vapes. Vapes have batteries inside.

Recycling batteries and vapes

Recycle batteries and vapes separately from your other electrical recycling because they can be dangerous. 

Batteries and vapes can start fires when crushed in bin lorries and recycling centres. Battery fires put lives in danger and cause serious health and environmental problems.

You should:

• remove batteries from your electrical items when you recycle them - find out how to recycle batteries on the Recycle Your Electricals website
• not remove batteries from a vape if you cannot get them out easily - recycle the whole vape instead

Collecting electrical items

You can book a free home collection for electrical items, including household batteries and vapes. Collections are on Thursdays.

• Book an AnyJunk collection. 

If you cannot take electrical items to one of the reuse and recycling centres, you can book a bulky waste collection instead. 

• For more information visit the North London Waste Authority website

TRAID will collect small electrical items for recycling from your home, as long as you are also recycling a separate bag of textile recycling.

• Book a collection with TRAID

Other ways to recycle your unwanted items

Freegle lets you give away or find unwanted goods in your local area.

TippTapp users can pick up your item if it is in a good condition and they can reuse it, with no cost to you.

Use the Recycle Electricals national directory to find your nearest recycling or donation points. 

Recycling banks for small electrical items

What you can recycle at electrical banks

Items you can recycle at electrical banks include:

• any small items that have a plug or require batteries
• kitchen appliances such as kettles or toasters
• audio-visual equipment such as CD players, digiboxes and remote controls
• bathroom equipment such as shavers and electric toothbrushes
• DIY tools
• phones
• chargers

Items should be small enough to fit through a chute hole. The hole is 520mm by 510mm.

For more information, visit the North London Waste Authority website.

Drop-off points for electrical items

Reuse and Recycling Centre, 40 Hornsey Street, London N7 8HU

Take back electrical items to a shop

Large electrical shops have to take back waste electrical items at their shops by law, but a product can only be returned when you buy another one. Check with your chosen shop for more details.

E-recycling

Freedom-Mobiles has a price-checking and comparison website for iPads and iPhones mobile technology. Freedom-Mobiles does not advertise or take commissions to compare mobile iPhone cash trade-ins.

If you have more than 10 mobile phones or lots of other IT to recycle at the same time, contact Freedom-Mobile directly for collection.