Win cash for your old electricals

Have you got any broken or unwanted electricals? Dig them out and take them to your local household waste recycling centre in the New Year for your chance to win one of fifteen £100 cash prizes.

From hair-dryers to hedge-trimmers, fairy lights to fridges and toasters to TVs, there’s a wide range of household appliances you can take to Derbyshire County Council’s recycling centres. And from 2 January, you can exchange them for a golden ticket – which means you could be quids in.

Simply pick up your golden ticket from a member of staff at any of the county council’s nine recycling centres, type in your unique ticket number online at and find out if you’re an instant winner. The more items you recycle, the more tickets you’ll get.

Councillor Paul Dunn, Derbyshire County Council’s Deputy Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport and Infrastructure, said:-

“We throw away more than a quarter of the electrical items we buy in the UK instead of recycling them. In Derbyshire, this contributes to the £20 million cost of dealing with waste which isn’t recycled each year – money which could be better spent on vital services at a time when councils are getting less money from central government.

“If every household in Derbyshire took just one electrical item it would mean more than 333,000 appliances being recycled, saving precious metals and other valuable materials they contain as well as saving council tax-payers’ cash. So dust down those old or unused items and take them to your local recycling centre from 2 January for your chance to win £100.”

The competition and campaign is being funded by Advantage Waste Brokers – the contractor which works on behalf of the county council to collect and recycle electrical items taken to its recycling centres.

Electrical goods can be exchanged for a golden ticket at Stonegravels Household Waste Recycling Centre. For a full list of items you can take to the recycling centre please click here.