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🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Recycle Your Electacles. |
0:02.8 | Recycle your Electrical is a UK-wide campaign making it easier for all of us to reuse and |
0:07.8 | recycle unwanted electricals, saving the precious materials inside them from going to waste. |
0:13.3 | We all have that drawer full of old cables, phones, and broken headphones, just sitting there. |
0:18.0 | In fact, there are millions of these cables sitting unused in homes across the UK. |
0:22.0 | Turns out, they're full of copper, a material that we need to make anything |
0:25.5 | from new phones to life-saving medical equipment. But here's the thing. When we throw those cables |
0:31.1 | away instead of recycling, all that valuable copper is lost forever. |
0:35.6 | That's why recycle your electricals is calling on everyone to join the Great Cable Challenge, |
0:40.7 | a nationwide effort to recycle one million cables across the UK. |
0:45.0 | If 1 million of us recycled at least one cable, |
0:48.0 | we could save at least 500 kilograms from going to waste. |
0:51.2 | And recycling them is easier than you think. Just bag up your old cables |
0:55.3 | and any other old unwanted electricals with a plug, battery, or cable, and use recycle your |
1:00.4 | electrical's locator to find your nearest donation or recycling points. |
1:04.2 | It took me just about 15 minutes to gather everything, right on my way to do the school run, |
1:08.9 | and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call multitasking. |
1:11.6 | Now not only is my space decluttered but I'm also |
1:14.2 | making a positive impact. Copper is key let's set it free so why not join the |
1:18.9 | great cable challenge bag up your old cables and electacles and search recycle your |
1:23.3 | electricals to find your local drop-off point. Recycle your |
1:26.0 | electricals only takes one small action to make a big difference. A lot of |
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