Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycler European Recycling Platform (ERP) and Heavenly Music Services have announced the launch of MAKE NOISE, a UK club tour that is free to visitors as long as they hand in a piece of WEEE for recycling.

Following on from the success of The European Recycling Party held in London in 2010, the new initiative asks club fans to bring with them a piece (or pieces) of WEEE for recycling (such as broken hairdryers, old phones, MP3 players or even batteries), in exchange for free admission.

Announcing the new tour, Scott Butler, ERP UK’s Managing Director, said: “We’re delighted to be teaming up with Heavenly to MAKE NOISE. We want to promote the best of electronic music in the UK. We also want to let people know how easy it is to recycle their old or broken gadgets and gizmos.”

For each piece of WEEE brought to the club nights, ERP will also donate £5 to local recording studios in each city featured on the tour, to go towards buying new equipment.

Starting on 6 November at Oh Yeah in Belfast, the tour will see Radio 1’s DJ, Benji B bring electronic music nights to fans in Bristol (The Bank, 13 November), Leeds (The Wire, 20 November), Glasgow (Sub Club, 22 November) and London (Corsica Studios, 27 November). Supporting acts include Ossie, DJ Die, Kidnap Kid, DJ Martelo, Conquering Animal Sound, Nic Tasker and Greenmoney.

Partnering music centres in each city are Oh Yeah (Belfast), Access To Music (Bristol and London), Cloth Cat (Leeds) and G15 (Glasgow).

Speaking of his involvement with MAKE NOISE, DJ Benji B said: “I'm looking forward to doing some fun club nights around the UK on this tour with MAKE NOISE – aimed at raising the awareness of recycling electrical equipment – not something most people ever think about, and not something I had really considered myself until now. It will be involving credible producers from around the country and also creating free club nights for the local communities.”

As well as promoting reuse and recycling, MAKE NOISE will also act as a free source of professional music parts for budding producers with its ‘online recycling bin’, Recycled Versions. The online project will give fans free access to an archive of old loops, bass lines, samples and vocals, in order for them to produce their own ‘recycled’ tracks.

Carl Gosling of Heavenly Music Services welcomed the new partnership, saying: “We started Heavenly Music Services to work on interesting projects like this, we're really excited about the tour, the online recycling bin and working with all the great DJs, producers and local studios on each of these UK dates. We very much hope that this is the first of many Make Noise tours.”

Fans are urged to follow MAKE Noise on Facebook and Twitter for up-to-date details.