We consume millions of batteries every year, to satisfy our demand for a portable power source, from remote controls to personal stereos . Around 600 million UK household batteries (22,000 tonnes) – the equivalent weight of 110 Jumbo Jets – are sent to landfill unnecessarily every year.
The average family uses 22 batteries a year, which means annually we get through more than 5 million of the things across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin.
The good news is they can all be recycled. Simply take them back to the shop you bought them from. All major UK retailers are obliged to accept your batteries back free of charge and recycle them.
They accept any household battery - sometimes these goes by unusual names such as Zinc carbon / Zine Chloride, Alkaline manganese, Primary button cells, Mercuric oxide, Zinc air, Silver oxide, Nickel cadmium, Nickel metal hydride and Lithium-Ion batterie, Nickel cadmium (NiCd) batteries. They can all be recycled just look out for the recycling bins in your local shop.
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