Before regulations came into force, batteries were mostly discarded into landfill, which is damaging to the environment as batteries contain hazardous metals such as Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Zinc, Manganese and Lithium. Incinerating batteries also causes harmful pollution to the air.
Additionally, the resources regained by recycling batteries are the same as those being mined (at a significant cost) in other parts of the world, which is creating further environmental damage.
CT Skills is continually looking for ways to reduce and minimise its environmental impacts and participate in green initiatives to combat pollution and waste, so over the next few days containers similar to the one pictured will appear in all CT Skills centres. Our aim is to act as a collection point, in conjunction with BatteryPack Plc, under the Non Waste Framework Directive 4 to collect and temporarily store waste batteries for treatment and recycling.
BatteryPack Plc has become one of the UK's premier Producer Compliance Schemes and has established over 30,000 collection points across the UK to help meet recycling targets of over 45% by 2016.
Please use these containers to recycle your used batteries, whether they were issued for work purposes or ones you have used at home. Also encourage learners to use the containers for their used batteries. By helping to recycle batteries, we will all be making a difference together to help the environment.
More on this will follow soon.
