Funds shortage pulls the plug on TV recycling

Monday 30th June 2008, 2:56PM BST.

THERE is no money to enable over a thousand televisions handed in for recycling to be shipped to a recycling plant in England.

About 100 a week are being collected but the Transport and Technical Services department can only pile them up in dump sites as they do not have the £4,000 a month needed to send off containers.

There are currently about 150 at the Bellozanne dump site but many have been moved to Warwick Farm while a decision is made on how to deal with the growing backlog.

Transport’s recycling officer, John Rive, said that the department began the TV recycling initiative in the middle of last year and the public had reacted positively to it.

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