As the digital switchover sweeps the UK and homes everywhere throw out their analogue TV sets, recycling firms are receiving a boom in business.
One waste management site in particular has seen a 60 per cent increase this year in the number of televisions coming into its facility, the Daily Record reports.
The six-acre site in Perth, which is managed by recycling firm Viridor, receives recycling material from all but one of Scotland’s 32 regional councils, making it one of the most high-volume operations in the UK.
Company spokesman Martin Grey told the news provider there are no signs that the recycling boom will slow down anytime soon.
"We expect the figure to accelerate as the Tartan Army rush to upgrade sets ahead of the World Cup, whichever team they are cheering on," he remarked.
In England the picture is mirrored and other electrical components such as computers, laptops and analogue radios are also being discarded by consumers updating their technology.
The demand for waste management facilities is therefore becoming increasingly more prevalent as the UK bids to adopt a zero waste policy, sending it down the conveyor belt for processing rather than down the shoot for the bin.
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