M.Video-Eldorado: Ecotaxis service for the export of old equipment for disposal

2022: Launch of an ecotaxi service for the export of old equipment for disposal

On October 20, 2022, the group M of Video El Dorado announced that, as part of the development economies , it had cyclically launched a service ecotaxi for export and transfer to utilization a faulty or unnecessary one. technicians Removal can be ordered for oversized, household goods regardless of where they were purchased. A service with a special service transport is available on the day of circulation, dismantling and work of loaders are included in the price. The company has already sent more than 4.6 thousand tons for processing to licensed enterprises, which electronic waste reduced the carbon footprint by 9 Russia thousand tons.

You can order ecotaxis on the website of M.Video using a chatbot, specifying the word "recycling," as well as through the contact center. After contacting the customer, the operator will contact the operator to clarify the details of the order, date and convenient time interval for the provision of the service. Departure is possible on the day of ordering the service at checkout up to 12 o'clock in the afternoon or the next day. The cost is fixed and will be 490 rubles per unit of recycled equipment. While the service is available for residents of Moscow and the Moscow region.

Large equipment is available for export in any condition and regardless of where it was purchased: refrigerators, stoves, washing and dishwashers, ovens, as well as built-in equipment. Loaders, if necessary, dismantle the device, for example, they will help disconnect the washing machine from water and electricity, and they themselves will load it into the machine. Dismantling services do not apply only to gas equipment.

All equipment received from customers will be sent to the Industrial Company Vtoraluminproduct, a large enterprise in Russia for the disposal of all types of electronic and metal-containing waste, for subsequent environmentally friendly recycling. The partner company with which the retailer cooperates has all the necessary licenses for the management of electronic waste and has been successfully coping with this task for many years.

In M.Video and Eldorado, it is still possible to hand over outdated and unnecessary large-sized equipment when delivering new goods. To do this, the client needs to add the service "Export of IVF equipment" to the basket when buying equipment on the website. Customers can also transfer oversized unnecessary equipment for processing in 836 retail stores of M.Video and Eldorado participating in the processing program in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Volgograd and other cities. In all M.Video stores, you can hand over used batteries to special boxes.

Since 2019, together with the Electronics - Recycling Association of North Kazakhstan region, the company has been implementing a federal program for the disposal of household appliances, electronics and batteries in Russia. In early 2022, the company conducted a study and found that almost 70% of respondents Russians regularly hand over or plan to hand over equipment for processing. As a major retailer and environmentally responsible company, we strive not only to improve our own initiatives within the framework of the EPR, but also to help Russian consumers level any barriers to responsible consumption. In particular, to simplify the commissioning of large equipment for recycling, so that proper and environmentally safe disposal becomes an affordable and only correct alternative to landfill or burial. Since 2019, buyers have transferred almost 5 thousand tons of electronic waste for processing. This convenient ecotaxis service will significantly reduce the amount of electronic waste that damages the environment, noted the head of the department for the implementation of environmental programs in retail M.Video-Eldorado, Oksana Platonova.