Spotlight on safer battery recycling

In our latest blog, we review the UK’s achievement of its 2021 portable battery obligation and continue to monitor the discrepancy between lead-acid batteries placed on the market compared with the waste lead-acid batteries that are collected.

An initiative to directly reduce the risk of fires at recycling centres and treatment plants has been launched this week, spearheaded and funded by the largest household WEEE producer compliance scheme, REPIC.

In our latest blog, we review the 2021 quarter four UK battery collection data published on 1st March 2022.

In our latest battery blog, we review the 2021 Quarter One to Three data to assess the UK’s progress in meeting it’s indicative 2021 obligation.

In this portable battery market report, we provide a high-level overview of progress in achieving the indicative 2021 UK battery obligation.

In our first portable battery market report for 2021 we review the most recently published 2021 UK waste portable battery data – that for Quarter One, January to March.

Dark nights, seasonal events and generally more time spent indoors, means at this time of year we use a lot of batteries in torches, Halloween and Christmas decorations, and TV remote controls.