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PC Gamer
Jacob Ridley

The data suggests Britain's best years of electronics recycling are already behind it

Scrapped Randam Access Memory (RAM) devices sit in a crate at the Attero Recycling Pvt facility in the Raipur industrial area of Bhagwanpur in Roorkee, Uttarkhand, India, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

E-waste is a big problem. We're sitting on piles of old electronics, PC parts, and peripherals, and I'll admit I'm extremely guilty of keeping this stuff around when I shouldn't. Luckily, there are many ways to recycle your tech, free-of-charge, which we should arguably be using more than we are today.

In the UK and EU, you'll see e-waste noted as WEEE, or Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Anything that's considered to be WEEE will come with a symbol that looks like a wheelie bin with a cross over it on the packaging or product, and any product with this symbol can be recycled, for free, under WEEE regulations.

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