Recycle Batteries

Put a spark into your recycling!

Can I recycle batteries?

Yes, but only a few local authorities currently operate battery collection schemes. You may be able to recycle batteries at your local recycling centre.

WRAP's battery trials

WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) has launched several battery recycling trials across the UK. To find out if you live in an area where these trials are taking place or to find out how they work, please visit

http://www.wrap.org.uk/local_authorities/batteries/index.html

What else can I do with them?

Currently WRAP is working with local authorities to increase battery recycling facilities all over the UK. To find out if your Local Authority is collecting batteries, use the Bank Locator to get their contact details.

If you can't recycle batteries in your area, try to Reduce and Reuse instead.

Reduce!

Plug electrical equipment into the mains electricity where possible.
Try to buy appliances that use renewable energy: a wind-up radio or torch, dynamo bicycle lights or a solar powered calculator.

Sophie Maude

In Spain in the supermarkets you can put the batteries into recyclers fixed to the wall. In Germany you get a few pennies for each bottle returned to the offlicence, so even if the purchaser doesn't return it someone will. It seems our European neighbours have many good ideas.

Sun 07 Sep 2008 14:13:34 GMT

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Recycling Lives offers good Corporate Social Responsibility.

Recycling Lives operates nationally to provide a wide range of recycling activities to Local Authorities, commercial organisations and the public. Recycling Lives provides housing, training and long term employment in the recycling sector, to people who would otherwise be homeless; including ex-armed forces personnel, probation and those from chaotic backgrounds.

Each Recycling Lives centre provides up to 48 quality en-suite rooms; training and office facilities; incubator units for entrepreneurs in social enterprise; industrial space for our recycling processes and retail space to sell good manufactured by Recycling Lives from recycled waste.

We do not ask for, or rely on 'gifts' from you, as we always pay fair prices for scrap metal recycling, plastic and other recyclables. By selling your waste to Recycling Lives your organisation helps us to be sustainable and you to show good corporate social responsibility.

Our social enterprise 'manages' good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on your behalf, by ensuring that our recycling activities are carried out by employees that would otherwise be marginalised or even forgotten by society.

What does Recycling Lives Recycle?

Aerosols |
Asbestos |
Batteries |
Beverage Cartons |
Bicycles |
Books |
Bricks and Building Rubble |
Car Batteries |
Cardboard Boxes |
Carpets |
Carrier Bags |
Christmas Trees |
Clinical Waste |
Clothes |
Compact Discs (CDs) Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) |
Computers |
Cooking Oil |
Drinks Cans |
Egg Shells |
Engine Oil |
Envelopes |
Fire Extinguishers |
Food Waste |
Furniture |
Garden waste |
Gas Bottles |
Glass |
Greetings cards |
Hearing Aids |
Keys |
Light Bulbs |
Magazines |
Milk bottles |
Mobile Phones |
Musical Instruments |
Nappies |
Paint |
Paper |
Plasterboard |
Plastic bottles |
Printer Cartridges |
Shoes |
Shredded Paper |
Spectacles |
Stamps |
Televisions and monitors |
Textiles |
Tin foil |
Toys |
Tyres |
Video cassettes |
White goods |
Wood |
Wrapping Paper |
Yellow Pages |
Yogurt Pots |