{"id":680512,"date":"2026-07-08T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680512\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:23:39","slug":"when-will-ban-on-electrical-items-at-norfolk-recycling-centres-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680512\/","title":{"rendered":"When will ban on electrical items at Norfolk recycling centres end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Norfolk County Council has yet to confirm that the ban, which it was forced to introduce after a blaze at the Norfolk depot which processed many electrical items, is about to be lifted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But posts on Facebook, from people who appear to have inside knowledge, have suggested the tips will accept all items again from Monday (July 13).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood the county council intends to make an announcement and provide further details on Thursday (July 9).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The partial ban on electrical items has been in place at Norfolk&#8217;s recycling centres since April.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was introduced after a fire at Wiser Recycling at Thetford, which Norfolk County Council used to process many of the electrical items people take to tips.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A fire ripped through Wiser Recycling in Thetford (Image: Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26079740.norfolk-tip-recycling-restrictions-return-major-fire\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The company then stopped operating<\/a> after it lost its treatment facility approval.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It left County Hall with no legal way to deal with much of the electrical waste which people take to its 19 recycling centres.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The council had to apply to a national scheme to be appointed with a new contractor, which took some time to conclude.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the meantime, recycling centres were able to accept washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers and cookers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Later, they were also able to take cookers, TVs, monitors and laptops, but not smaller electrical items, batteries, light bulbs and fluorescent tubes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Council officials had urged people to hang on to electrical items in the meantime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They asked people not to fly-tip such items or to put electrical items in with normal rubbish, as those can spark fires.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A blaze last month, at the Longwater Recycling Centre in Costessey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26210481.costessey-recycling-centre-fire-likely-started-battery\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was thought to have been cause by a lithium-ion battery dumped in rubbish<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When compacted in bin lorries, the cells in those batteries become damaged, causing &#8220;fast, fierce and sometimes fatal&#8221; fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norfolk County Council has yet to confirm that the ban, which it was forced to introduce after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}