Consumers with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), such as old laptops, have been offered a cash incentive to send the machines back to the supplier.

Those with Toshiba laptops which they no longer use can now take advantage of the firm´s trade-in scheme, offering sums of up to £150 for WEEE which would otherwise go to landfill.

Although the initiative plans to get unused laptops refurbished and resold, those which are unsalvageable can still offer raw material for a future product through WEEE recycling methods.

Toshiba Say:
” A leading global citizen, Toshiba products are compatible with the strict standards set by these world-recognized directives:

WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Protects the environment by promoting the reuse, recycling and recovery of electronic materials.

RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substance Standard) Seeks to reduce the use of manufacturing substances that harm human health or the environment.

The products we take back for trade-in and recycling, including covered electronic devices, will not be disposed of in landfills or transferred to computer equipment recycling facilities that dispose of covered devices in landfills other than necessary incidental despoil in de minimis amounts.

The result? We’ve kept tons of toxic chemicals and other substances out of the ecosystem. ”