Environmental Update (January 2010)
Waste industrial batteries
Regulations banning the disposal of waste industrial
batteries to landfill or by incineration came into force
on 1st January 2010.
If you buy new industrial batteries, the
battery producer will take back your waste batteries. You should
contact your battery producer to find out the arrangements for
returning waste batteries.
If you are not replacing waste batteries you
can contact the original producer and find out the arrangements for
returning waste batteries.
If you cannot arrange a collection with the original producer then
you should contact a producer who currently supplies batteries of
the same chemistry, or has placed that type of battery on the
market recently.
If you are unable to contact a producer of batteries of the same
chemistry then you can return your waste batteries to any producer
of industrial batteries.
Producers of industrial batteries must
advertise their contact details, and the types of batteries they
produce before the start of each calendar year in which they
operate.
You can obtain a list of registered producers of industrial and
automotive batteries from The Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills (BIS).