New repair technicians to be trained to prevent electrical waste

Leo Donovan, CEO of WEEE Ireland, and Declan McElwaine, owner of Electrical Appliance Services (Andres Poveda)

Ireland is set to train a new generation of repair technicians to prevent thousands of tonnes of electrical appliances going to waste.

An industry-wide drive to extend the lives of white goods has been fast-tracked to combat a major national shortage of electrical repair experts – whose average age is now 59.