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During December 2017, BatteryBack carried out its annual battery recycling survey for the second year to understand the battery recycling awareness and habits of UK households. This highlighted that there was a small increase in those recycling batteries compared to last year but worryingly, a third of those questions still admitted to throwing batteries in…
We are expecting many new opportunities and a few challenges in 2018. The forthcoming environmental policy changes, as outlined in the following article, will give us plenty to read and digest. And this is in addition to the GDPR Regulations coming into effect in May; the change in battery weight thresholds expected in April; not…
2018 promises to be a year full of developments for the recycling and waste management sector. There a number of challenges on the horizon as well opportunities for recycling businesses through to manufacturing companies in terms of becoming a stronger part of the development of a more circular economy in Europe. On the home front,…
Following the success of last year’s trial, BatteryBack and Duracell are now working on The Big Battery Hunt for 2018. This will involve over half a million primary school pupils collecting used batteries using a purpose designed box, with those collecting the most winning prizes such as Duracell bunnies. Schools are being recruited now and…
Just a few days before Christmas, the European Union under the auspices of the Estonian presidency thrashed out an agreement on the wide-ranging circular economy package. The deal still has to be ratified by environment ministers from around the EU but is now seen as one that will be approved. In the end, Europe looks…
In the wake of some concerns that the UK could miss recycling targets for waste electrical equipment in 2017, operators of recycling plants have come together to warn that the way regulators classify WEEE is a factor behind any shortfall. The plant operators argue that the lower than expected recycling rates in 2017 – for waste…
Having launched an exclusive service for the collection and repatriation of all types of Calor cylinders CylinderCare is able to provide a safe and compliant service for most types of pressurised cylinders. Providing a national service, regardless of volume we are able to collect most cylinders free of charge. CylinderCare, formally Brooksight Ltd, has been…
Top government scientists have recommended that the exporting or disposing of waste should end. The lack of support for exports of waste comes in a government-funded report which describes ‘waste’ as an “enormous opportunity” in terms of resources, and promotes the idea of more recycling or reuse of materials within the UK. But while it has been published…
Television and newspapers have been giving considerable coverage to the situation with regard to the exports of recyclable materials to China over the past few weeks and months. In a complex situation, primarily centred on China’s desire to improve its environment, restrictions are being imposed on the types and quality of materials that will now…
A Wolverhampton based electroplating firm have been fined £180,000 despite numerous warning to clean up it’s act a court heard. When the cyanide levels were uncovered, company challenged the results suggesting Severn Trent Water introduced it in their sampling equipment. Waste from the firm goes to Barnhurst Sewage Treatment Works in Oxley which discharges into…
