WEEE & BATTERIES
G&P Batteries gets visit from MEP
MEP Julie Girling has visited G&P Batteries to learn more about how waste batteries are handled in the UK. Girling, MEP for South West of England, Isles of Scilly and Gibraltar, is a member of the European Parliament’s environment committee and takes a special interest in waste and recycling issues in the UK. She was given a tour of G&P’s sort- ing and recycling facilities at Darlaston in the West Midlands by managing director Michael Green. He explained how the UK was performing one year on from the introduction of the UK Waste Battery Regulations.
Although official figures are yet to be published, it is widely believed that
the UK will have met its 2010 target of collecting 10% of portable waste batteries produced. The first enforce- able European target occurs in 2012, when the UK has to recycle 25% of portable waste batteries. The UK has introduced interim targets for each year between 2010 and 2016. The two also discussed the impor- tance of raising public awareness. “It has been useful to see the facility and gain an insight of the issues involved. It is important that the public has a better understanding of the essential environmental benefits of waste bat- tery recycling,” Girling commented.
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