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Noel Leeming Offers TV Drop Offs for Recycling At All Stores
Noel Leeming Offers TV Drop Offs for Recycling At All Stores
The Noel Leeming Group has joined the Ministry for the Environment’s TV TakeBack Programme and is now offering a drop off solution for TV Recycling at all of its stores across New Zealand. Noel Leeming started on Monday 1 April and the first collections from stores have already been done.
There is a charge of $5 (incl. gst) to drop your TV off. Noel Leeming provides the largest number of stores of all the retailers participating in this programme, including their stores on the North Island, long in advance of the digital switch over in the North Island regions. There will be a limited time period and a limited number of TVs that stores will receive for recycling.
Noel Leeming is partnering with RCN e-Cycle, the e-waste recycling programme established by the RCN Group and the Community Recycling Network in September 2010. RCN e-Cycle is providing the collection services from all Noel Leeming stores and the recycling solution for the TVs collected at Noel Leeming in their recycling plants in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
RCN e-Cycle project manager Jon Thornhill said “We are very pleased to be working with Noel Leeming and the Ministry for the Environment on this fantastic initiative. It provides an excellent opportunity for all New Zealanders to access a very cost effective and environmentally friendly recycling service for their old TVs.”
RCN e-Cycle has created over 30 full time jobs in New Zealand over the last two and a half years and accepts all IT and most consumer electronics products from businesses and households on a charge basis. All TVs and other products are dismantled and processed in RCN e-Cycle’s recycling plants and the components are distributed to local and international recyclers for responsible recycling. The recycled materials are usually re-used as raw materials for new products, including copper, gold, various metals, glass etc.
TV TakeBack is a nationwide programme funded by the Waste Minimisation Fund to stop TVs being dumped in landfills whilst New Zealand is going digital. RCN e-Cycle is one of three recyclers chosen to support the Ministry for the Environment’s initiative.
For more information see: www.e-cycle.co.nz
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