Data release by the EA shows that UK producers of waste batteries are above the required collection target of 18% for 2011. The data also shows that the vast majority of batteries collected are of lead acid technology. In fact the amount of lead acid batteries collected in 2011 is more than put on the market in the same period.
Battery compliance schemes, which collect and process waste batteries on behalf of waste battery producers, are entitled to collect lead acid batteries in order to fulfil their obligations. It is feared that the preference for lead acid technology is detrimental to the recycling of other technologies and undermines the effectiveness of the battery directive. Should questions be asked of the EA and BIS, and their approach to the implementation of the EU battery directive be revised? The UK is legally bound to collect and process 25% of the batteries put on the market by the end of 2012 but should this include a more representative collection of different battery technologies?
Source: letsrecycle.com
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