United Kingdom remind industry regulations of battery
The United Kingdom’s Environment Agency is urging small businesses that make, import, or sell batteries and battery-operated equipment to ensure that those products comply with new regulations to reduce the environmental impact of batteries. Any business that in 2009 placed batteries for the first time on the market in the United Kingdom should have registered as a battery producer. The first deadline for submitting battery data for 2009 was Jan 31, 2010.
The actions are new responsibilities under the United Kingdom’s Waste Batteries GK479 , FK890 , Inspiron 1720 battery and Accumulators Regulations that came into force in 2009. The regulations set out how the United Kingdom collects, treats, and recycles all types of waste batteries and rechargeable batteries. The Environment Agency estimates that approximately 700 million batteries, which can contain substances that are harmful to the environment, such as cadmium, enter UK landfills each year. Meanwhile, the government agency estimates that just 3% of the 30,000 tons of portable batteries sold in the UK market annually are currently recycled. “Ensuring that portable batteries Inspiron 1721 battery,Inspiron 1520 battery,Inspiron 1521 battery are correctly disposed of and their component parts, such as their metal casings, are reused is good news for the environment,” says Bob Mead, the Environment Agency’s batteries-project manager.