Your electrical appliance is defective or can no longer be used? Then we can take care of professional recycling with our Electro Recycling Bag. After all, your electrical appliances contain not only valuable materials but also harmful substances that need to be disposed of properly.
Up to 85% of the components in electrical and electronic devices can be recycled. This mainly includes metals such as iron, steel, copper and aluminium, plastics and glass - and even precious metals such as gold. In addition to these valuable materials, however, electrical appliances also contain substances that are harmful if they end up in soil, water or the air. These are mainly mercury, harmful substances in coolants and refrigerants, brominated flame retardants and poorly degradable substances in the capacitors of old electrical appliances.
This makes it all the more important that electrical appliances are disposed of correctly. And this is very easy with the Electro Recycling Bag.
Electro Recycling Bag - recycling made easy
This makes it all the more important that electrical appliances are disposed of correctly. With the bag, you can conveniently recycle your used electrical appliances from home. Fill the bag with appliances weighing up to 10kg that have electronic or electrical components and can be stored in it. You can then place the bag in your letterbox so that it is clearly visible for the post office to pick up.
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The pilot project 2022 in Geneva, Zurich and Bern
Over 6 tonnes of electrical appliances given a second life
For about 4 months in 2022, people in Geneva, Bern and Zurich were able to give their old electrical appliances a second life - right on their doorstep. The Electro Recycling Bag made it easy to collect electrical appliances and then deposit them at the letterbox. The rest was done by SENS eRecycling in a project partnership with Swiss Post. And this offer was very well received: over 4500 orders were received. A SENSational 6 tonnes of electrical appliances were collected and returned to the cycle. Thanks to a new offer in collaboration with the Service Industrielle de Genève SIG, a ReUse offer was also created for the first time.
In the canton of Geneva and the two cities of Zurich and Bern, collection fever truly broke out. Cellars were cleared out, boxes emptied and drawers turned upside down. The result: over 6.5 tonnes of defective or no longer used electrical appliances were returned with the Electro Recycling Bag – a sensational achievement and a great success for the new service offered by SENS eRecycling in project partnership with Swiss Post! Not only do the good figures bear this out, but also the many positive responses from the public.
In order to gain a deeper insight into the recycling behaviour of the Swiss, the filled recycling sacks were analysed. A lot of exciting things came to light. For example, the average filled Electro Recycling Bag weighs just over 4.5 kilograms and typically contains electric toothbrushes, shavers, irons and blenders. But remote controls, mobile phones and headphones were also disposed of with the Electro Recycling Bag. Particularly pleasing: at less than 0.5%, the proportion of foreign matter in the bags is very low.