Car batteries - coming to a roadside verge near you
Discussion
This morning the Environment Agency sent out an immediate effect order banning the recycling of car batteries due to the ABS content
I tried to drop off a couple of dead ones this morning and they were refused - they are furious as they have lots they have already taken in and there is now no way to send them upstream - this was a downstream vendor to EMR
I assume the council tips will stop taking them if they cannot move them on either in which case they are going to get dumped
I tried to drop off a couple of dead ones this morning and they were refused - they are furious as they have lots they have already taken in and there is now no way to send them upstream - this was a downstream vendor to EMR
I assume the council tips will stop taking them if they cannot move them on either in which case they are going to get dumped
Willhire89 said:
These were just bog stock lead acid, What the guy said it was linked to was the ABS casings which cannot be recycled
Guidance on that already exists, I believe, it's to do with persistent organic pollutants in certain plastics, and how it affects the appropriate way to dispose of them.vaud said:
Doesn’t make sense with no wider press releases. Might be their way of saying they have no supply chain to dispose of them in a compliant way, so we will blame a directive from EA. That isnt publicly available.
My guess is most end customers would just accept this?
If people wishing to recycle batteries would like to pay handsomely for the privilege then I reckon they'll find a way to accept them. Then pay some unskilled labour to extract the lead to sell and chuck the remains into bales and store those bales in a leased warehouse somewhere and forget about them....My guess is most end customers would just accept this?
Yes a ban on recycling them sounds very unlikely. It is possible that the EA have either tightened the rules around pollutants released while recycling them or banned a certain specific practices used in their recycling but neither of those things would mean they couldn't be recycled in other ways.
Whilst no level of stupidity would really shock me with modern politics, I would at least be mildly surprised if council run tips stopped taking them. Time will tell, though.
Whilst no level of stupidity would really shock me with modern politics, I would at least be mildly surprised if council run tips stopped taking them. Time will tell, though.
Willhire89 said:
This morning the Environment Agency sent out an immediate effect order banning the recycling of car batteries due to the ABS content
I tried to drop off a couple of dead ones this morning and they were refused - they are furious as they have lots they have already taken in and there is now no way to send them upstream - this was a downstream vendor to EMR
I assume the council tips will stop taking them if they cannot move them on either in which case they are going to get dumped
If the EA did do this they forgot to add it to their website's latest news feed:I tried to drop off a couple of dead ones this morning and they were refused - they are furious as they have lots they have already taken in and there is now no way to send them upstream - this was a downstream vendor to EMR
I assume the council tips will stop taking them if they cannot move them on either in which case they are going to get dumped
https://www.gov.uk/search/all?organisations[]=envi...
Gary C said:
Possible, though that is from 2024, so at odds with an immediate order outlined by the OP.Willhire89 said:
These were just bog stock lead acid, What the guy said it was linked to was the ABS casings which cannot be recycled
I think ‘Normal’ lead acids ones (wet ones) are all polypropylene. ABS ones are unusual in automotive (well, they used to be anyway) maybe some of the ‘agm’ ones.
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