SMALL electrical devices such as mobiles or laptops can now be recycled at household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) in North Yorkshire in new enclosed containers.

Residents had been asking for a new way of disposing and the containers are now in place at 15 HWRCs owned by North Yorkshire County Council and managed by Yorwaste. These include Whitby, Tadcaster, Malton, Harrogate, West Harrogate, Ripon, Catterick Bridge, Leeming Bar,, Sowerby, Northallerton, Burniston, Tholthorpe and Selby.

The new containers are clearly signed to show that they can accept the following small items: laptops; tablets; games consoles; mobile phones and digital TV boxes.

Other small and large electrical items can still be recycled on site within the open containers, but the new containers allow residents to recycle small items more easily.