WRAP expands battery collection scheme

WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) is expanding its battery recycling trials with bins in selected stores (Homebase, B&Q and Tesco are all taking part) and community recycling points. There is also a postal collection scheme for those in rural areas, using pre-paid envelopes.

The trials will roll out in selected areas of England, Scotland and Wales over the next eighteen months.

WRAP has already introduced kerbside battery recycling trials to over 350,000 households, and these new schemes will allow an additional 400,000 households to do the right thing with regards to their dead batteries.

Let's hope it is successful; the EU Batteries Directive requires the collection of 25% of all household batteries for recycling by 2012.