Copper from unused electricals could help power UK renewables boom

Stuart Stone
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Credit: Recycle Your Electricals

Unused electrical items could provide almost a third of the copper needed by new wind and solar farms by 2030

An estimated 1.3 billion unused or binned electrical items, including 627 million cables, could help tackle a looming copper supply crunch that threatens to hamper the roll out of electric vehicles (EVs),...

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