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Don't bin that battery - recycle it!

by Julian Prokaza on Thursday 17 January 2008 Comment

Battbox If you're currently throwing your spent batteries in the bin, it's time for a rethink. The 2006 EU Battery Directive states that 25% of spent household batteries will have to be recycled by 2012, rising to 45% by 2016. Given that only 2% are currently recycled (some 600 million are sent to landfill each year), there's some way to go.

Battery recycling programmes do exist, but if your local authority has yet to put something in place, waste battery collection organisation G&P Batteries has an inexpensive option. For a one-off £25 (plus VAT) payment, you'll be sent a cardboard BattBox into which go all your spent batteries. When full, G&P will collect the box and recycle its contents.

All types of batteries can be recycled - as long as they fit in the tissue box-size BattBox. So, you can dispose of everything from lithium button batteries to laptop batteries, but no car batteries -- though you can contact G&P for special collections.

[ BattBox]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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