Tesco Clubcard points for my old TV – every little helps?

How many of these unwanted electrical items will be “refurbished” and “recycled” and end up elsewhere in the world?

With the prices of land fill in the UK at almost record levels, it seems strange that a supermarket would take to paying for old goods?
Of course, the “reward” points open another door to gaining more consumer information, which will be turned around and used to increase profits down the line, to the detriment of consumers, but at a time when food prices are at record levels and rising, tesco sales are down 0.5% but profits are up over 12%, shows that supermarkets (of all colours) care not one jot about anyone but themselves.
There is of course good profits to be made by restricting the customer to shopping with them in the run up to christmas, but what of the case against carbon emissions?

It matters not where things are dumped and end up, it still contributes to increasing carbon emissions, I’d be interested to hear the “green” view of this action, preferably before it is allowed to go ahead.

Any scheme which encourages or makes it easy for people to recycle goods especially through re-use is to be encouraged.

Would seem a good way of getting rid of old non-working electrical items – probably easier than finding your nearest official WEEE recycling point which may well be miles away and in an inconvenient location.

If it does extend to non-working electronic, electrical and mechanical stuff AND points awarded can be redeemed as respects or w r t grocery purchases, then I’m on to a winner… had been criticized for hoarding too many old things by all and sundry… always protested they’d come in handy some day, hope I’m proved right on this particular occasion.

Dunno if my old 78 rpms are worth anything, rather hernia-inducing if lot were carried or even a small fraction thereof, and even by an able-bodied adult.

Personally, I think it’s a good idea if the goods can be used elsewhere rather than just dumped in a landfill.
It seems that Tesco are being quite generous on their offer prices, given the example items in the article but I suspect they’ll end up somewhere in the world where Tesco make a profit eventually!

Correcting myself re previous, to avoid any ambiguity and to give it the meaning intended,
probably better to say ‘… other smaller items of household stuff’.

May be quite a good idea for people who don’t keep stuff for long and who are trying to ditch fairly modern equipment, but a quick check through the Tesco list showed that the points offered for my old (good condition and still working) electrical stuff would not make it worth my while to drive the short trip to my Tesco store – the cost of the petrol would outweigh the value of the points. So the only advantage to me would be the reassurance that the stuff was going to be properly recycled.

It would be nice if Tesco would take your broken vacuum cleaner to save a trip to the recycling centre, but I don’t think it is going to happen. Have a look at this, which was published before the current scheme:

http://direct.tesco.com/buyersguide/Recycling_electrical_products.aspx

It suggests that Tesco has discharged its liability to collect WEEE waste when you purchase an replacement product by contributing to the cost of council recycling facilities.

It will be very interesting to see how the new scheme run by Tesco does work.