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Encourage battery recycling
New rules requiring the establishment of recycling points at some retail locations should help to reduce the number of batteries currently being sent to landfill.
From this month, any retailer selling more than 32 kilograms of batteries annually will be required to supply recycling facilities for customers to use once the batteries NR222 , NR239 , PC764 have run out.
“Old batteries can cause harm to the environment when they are not recycled,” said environment minister Huw Irranca-Davies.
“The new approach to disposal of batteries Latitude D830 battery will help to reduce the number of batteries that now end up in landfill.”
According to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the UK uses on average 600 million batteries a year, with 97 per cent of these ending up in landfill.
The government is aiming to increase the rate at which batteries are recycled from three per cent to a quarter in the next two years, and to 45 per cent by 2016.
As well as shops, some libraries, town halls and schools will also set up battery collection points on a voluntary basis.