News Category: UK Waste Legislation and Guidance
Vehicle and Industrial Batteries Banned from Landfill and Incineration
14 January 2010
The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 came into effect on 1 January 2010. Under the regulations producers placing more than one tonne of portable batteries onto the market in a calendar year are expected to have signed up to one of the seven batteries compliance schemes that were approved by the Environment Agency in September 2009. The regulations also ban the disposal of waste automotive and waste industrial batteries to landfill or by incineration.
More information is available here:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/producer/batteries/index.htm
The full text of the regulations is available here:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20090890_en_1
The full text of the EU Batteries Directive is available here:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:266:0001:0014:EN:PDF | 
