Retailers of white goods should take old ones away

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My parents had a new dishwasher as theirs packed up. The retailer they bought it from, installed it. They paid £20 for taking the old one away. This is cheaper than the council's bulky waste at £26.

I think it should be made law that all retailers of white goods should take the old one away free. Seen houses with old fridges etc on their driveways for 5 years plus. Then see white goods fly tipped everywhere. Surely if people can spend mid hundreds on white goods, then they can afford the £20 to have old item taken away to be recycled/disposed properly.

A family friend decided to take his old under counter fridge to the tip and he damaged the wiring to the light at the top of the boot. £180 bill.

In fact we are already paying for white goods disposal through council tax, just not the transport. People should very much have the option to continue to use this service they are already paying for if prepared to transport the old appliances themselves.

It hasn't effected their price in Ireland. It is art of their requirement as a retailer of electrical goods
Companies that produce electrical and electronic goods must cover the cost of collecting, treating, recovering and disposing of WEEE in an environmentally friendly way.

It will never be free. It's going to cost them time, fuel and money to tip all old white appliances. They'd have to get that money back, by adding it onto the price of new ones. Otherwise they'd all go under from the rising costs. £20 is managable, when buying a new one.

They never charge much for taking the old one away though, if you're buying a new appliance you factor that in to the cost of it

No it won't because you don't have to let them take it away, it's just a service that most retailers offer, for an already token fee of £20, which will almost certainly be less than the cost of removing an item and taking it to wherever strips it for recycling/disposal.

It's just a service that's offered for people who aren't able to take broken items to the tip and in many cases will be cheaper than local council bulky collection.

People are still free to sell or give away still working white goods, although it's likely most things will be no longer working when they're replaced anyway.

Nah. Absorbing £20 costs to recycle is nothing compared to the profit on selling a new unit. Also it’s rarely the sellers that are the manufacturers with white goods.

Not of you are a young person buying their first home.why should they pay for disposal?

I'm sure a free removal with a new machine would reduce the number of people selling or donating older working machines just because of the convenience. This would lead to more working machines being scrapped before the end of their useful life.

I was thinking that there is free collection of old white goods but realise that's because I'm in Ireland and it's the law.