Turn your old electronics into fresh meals
Turn your old electronics
into fresh meals
A national program that tackles ewaste and food insecurity
emeals, a program by Ecoactiv and PonyUp for Good, allows you to have your preloved electronics—from appliances and IT devices to whitegoods—collected from your home and delivered to accredited recyclers. We audit every step to ensure nothing goes to landfill.
Plus, with each recycling booking, 5 fresh meals are donated to people in need through SecondBite.
To participate, simply purchase an ewaste satchel or box below
Small ewaste Recycling Satchel
$49.00
This small ewaste prepaid satchel (368mm x 483mm) is perfect for recycling small electronics, including mice, keyboards, laptops, tablets, phones, cameras, gaming consoles, cables, and electronic toys.
Just fill the satchel, drop it off at any Australia Post location and sent to an accredited recycling facility for responsible processing.
Large ewaste Recycling Box
$69.00
This large ewaste prepaid box (410mm x 300mm x 440mm) is perfect for responsibly recycling a variety of electronics and small appliances, with a maximum capacity of 20kg. It accommodates items like keyboards, laptops, tablets, phones, modems, gaming consoles, digital cameras, small kitchen appliances, power tools, and electronic toys.
Simply fill the box, drop it off at any Australia Post location, and it will be sent prepaid to an accredited recycling facility for safe processing.
Book a collection for larger ewaste items
If your ewaste items are too large to fit in a box, we’ve got you covered with our nationwide collection service, available all year round. Book a pick-up for bulkier electronics, and we’ll handle the recycling for you. Whether for home or office, our hassle-free service ensures your larger items are responsibly recycled.
Examples of larger e-waste include:
- Desktop computers
- Printers & Photocopiers
- Monitors
- Televisions
- Refrigerators
- Washing machines
- Audio systems
Make the active choice to recycle your preloved items
emeals, the Ecoactiv Platform and PonyUp for Good exist to help end landfilling and food waste in Australia.
The process is underpinned by the circular economy and forms part of our collective mission to establish a new era of waste reduction — where every item that’s manufactured ultimately gets recycled and regenerated into something new and every item of produce that’s harvested gets consumed.
You can now choose to recycle your pre-loved electronics, own where they end up and demand transparency.
Feed People In Need Through Meal Donations
Divert E-Waste From Landfill
Reduce Carbon Emissions
Get Transparency On Where Your Items Go
Matt Preston announces the launch
of emeals across Australia
Sustainable Sally shares the news
about our 5,000 meal donations and
10,000kg waste diversion milestone
The program is national and available to households all across Australia. We collect from both metro and regional suburbs in VIC, NSW, QLD, WA, SA, TAS and NT.
The Australian Government estimates food waste costs the Australian economy $20 billion each year. Currently, 5 million tonnes of food ends up as landfill, that’s enough to fill 8,400 Olympic sized swimming pools. When organic waste is dumped into landfill, it undergoes anaerobic decomposition (because of the lack of oxygen) and generates methane, which is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Meanwhile the latest figures reveal more than 5 million people in Australia experience food insecurity at least once in the course of a year. SecondBite exists to make sure that good food is getting to people who need it most, rather than to landfill. With Australia’s recent bushfires and the COVID crisis, basic access to fresh food has become more important than ever before and impacts many people in every community.
Putting ewaste into your rubbish bin or any other receptacle destined for landfill is illegal in both Victoria and South Australia and other states are working towards this ban too. Over 90% of e-waste can be recycled to reclaim precious metals including gold, silver, platinum, tin, copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc and aluminium. Once in landfill toxic chemicals including lead, mercury, cadmium, barium & lithium leach into our soil & waterways causing decades of damage. Besides, now there is an easy way to have it collected from your home and feed people in need at the same time – so why wouldn’t you?
Ewaste is also growing up to three times faster than general municipal waste across Australia. It covers a range of items including televisions, desktops, laptops, printers and mobile phones. Globally the amount making its way to landfill is increasing each year and is expected to pass 52 million tonnes per year by 2021. Electronic waste is responsible for 70% of the toxic chemicals found in our landfills and waterways, such as lead, cadmium and mercury. So yes, we’d say it’s a super significant problem – and with this program, we are now collectively all part of the solution!
Ecoactiv prides itself of partnering with 100% on-shore recyclers. They undertake a rigorous assessment and auditing process with each recycler – from receipt of item to destruction and certification.
All Ecoativ recycling providers are certified and comply with Australian and international standards (AS/NZS:5377 and ISO 14001:2015).
