Council to tackle improper battery disposal
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 16:11:57
Fylde Borough Council is going to be helping local people dispose of their unwanted batteries safely and sustainably, thanks to a new scheme which will see it distribute battery recycling bags to residents in Lancashire.
The council is teaming up with Valpak Recycling, to encourage people to keep their old, used batteries away from the bin. Instead, they will place them in a special bag from which they can be collected and recycled, without causing any damage to the environment.
It is estimated that 600 million old batteries from portable devices are simply sent to landfill sites by UK citizens every year, despite the fact that each and every one of them could be recycled, given the chance.
Council spokesperson, Albert Ponder, said that the people of Fylde Borough had been making a real effort to get on top of recycling for almost a decade, with help from the local authority.
He pointed out that it is easier to encourage large numbers of people to recycle if you are able to offer them a particularly convenient way in which to do so. The battery bag scheme aims to do just that.
Valpak said that it will be able to accept all types of common household batteries, including rechargeable cells, once they are no longer required. Batteries of all shapes, sizes and outputs will be included and the reusable bags for holding the batteries are simply to be placed on top of the main recycling bins outside residents' homes for collection.
Batteries from laptops and mobile phones which are no longer in action can be recycled in exactly the same way as standard AA cells found in TV remotes. It is to he hoped that anyone with an old handset will do the right thing and dispose of it safely and responsibly.
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