Win cash for you old electricals

Have you got any old, 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 ask for 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 www.derbyshire.gov.uk/electric and find out if you’re an instant winner. The more items you recycle, the more tickets you’ll get.

Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport and Infrastructure Councillor Simon Spencer said: “This is a great way of putting unwanted electricals to good use – with the added bonus of a chance to win £100.

“It’s a shocking fact that across the UK we throw away more than a quarter of the electrical items we buy instead of recycling them.

“We spend £20 million a year dealing with waste in Derbyshire which residents choose not to recycle.

“But if every Derbyshire household took just one electrical item to one of our recycling centres in January we could recycle an additional 333,000 appliances, saving not only tax-payers cash but also the precious metals and other valuable materials they contain.”

The competition prizes are 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 the following recycling centres:

• Ashbourne (Mayfield Road)
• Bolsover (Buttermilk Lane)
• Buxton (Waterswallows Road)
• Glossop (Melandra Road)
• Ilkeston (Manners Avenue Industrial Estate)
• Loscoe (Heanor)
• Newhall (Swadlincote)
• Northwood (Darley Dale)
• Stonegravels (Chesterfield)