Ask your elected representative to support our plan to tackle e-waste and create a circular economy for materials

Currently, the UK has a largely linear economy where resources are extracted with significant environmental and health impacts used in products and services, before being thrown away as waste. To use resources more sustainably, we need to move to a circular economy model. Visit our campaign web pages to find out more and watch our critical minerals docuseries.

To achieve the step-change needed to deal with e-waste, our governments must:

Develop and deliver a clear overarching strategy – coordinated across governments – to enable a circular economy of materials across UK.
Improve data collection, including the mapping and tracking of critical mineral and other material streams within electrical and electronic equipment and other technologies, such as renewable energy.
Support world-class research into sustainable materials, including those limiting emissions along entire material and product lifecycles.
Invest in and incentivise resource-efficient design, production and processes, alongside assessments of criticality and substitutability of materials, taking into account the needs of different sectors.
Invest in infrastructure to support the re-use, repair and re-manufacturing of products according to the waste hierarchy.
Invest in recycling infrastructure and technologies to enable the increased recovery of critical minerals and other materials to be used as secondary resources and prevent their leakage from the economy.

You can help make sure policymakers are paying attention to this issue by writing to your elected representative today, and asking them to support our campaign to tackle #EWaste on social media, and raise the issue with government.

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