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70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Figure 7.10 Disposal (or recycling/reuse) routes for electrical items, non-users of online exchanges TV Mobile phone Computer Other IT Other electrical Washing machine Keep item Refuse collection Collection of large items by council Local tip or recycling centre Charitable collection or outlet Second hand shops Car boot sales Sold offline Donated to friends / family Base: TV 284, mobile 230, computer 191, other IT 164, other electrical 287, washing machine 275 For televisions, computers, ‘other IT’ and ‘other’ electrical items, the local tip or recycling centre, i.e. the local HWRC, was the most common response. Mobile phones differed in that the most frequent response was donation to charity. More people said they would put a washing machine out for the council to collect than any other route of disposal (or recycling/reuse). Online Exchange Potential Impact 54
70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% Figure 7.11 Disposal (or recycling/reuse) routes for clothing items, non-users of online exchanges 0% Leather jacket Cotton shirt Jumper Base: Leather jacket 262, cotton shirt 283, jumper 295 The most frequently stated option for clothing is donation to charity, followed by taking to a second hand shop. Over 10% of people would also possibly donate their clothing to friends or family. Clothing seems more likely than other items (except for some electrical items) to be discarded for refuse by non-users of online exchange. For both furniture and large electrical goods high numbers of non-users of online exchange sites would use bulky waste collections, which involve a fairly high risk of those items not being reused (although the electrical items will be recycled). Further analysis of offline disposal routes can be found in Section 7.4. 7.3 Comparison of users and non-users Keep item Refuse collection Collection of large items by council Local tip or recycling centre Charitable collection or outlet Second hand shops Car boot sales Sold offline There were 583 users of online exchange websites and 509 non-users who participated in the survey, although not all of them answered the questions relating to alternative disposal routes. All respondents were asked about offline alternatives used to exchange or dispose of items. Figure 7.12 and Table 7.5 give a comparison of users and non-users of online exchange websites. Table 7.5 shows the different offline reuse and dispose routes for all items for both users and nonusers of online exchange. This shows that overall reuse by users of online exchange sites is slightly higher, although some routes are well used by both (such as charitable collections). The potential displacement from other types of reuse by offline respondents is lower (i.e. they could do more additional reuse), though a number of options remain open to increase the amount of reuse they do, of which online exchange websites is only one. What they switch to when they take up reuse is likely to be a matter of convenience as much as anything. The data would suggest that there are opportunities to increase reuse of items collected through the bulky waste system or HWRCs. Online Exchange Potential Impact 55
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