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Domestic battery recycling

  • 01-09-2020 10:15am
    #1
    StackSteevens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭


    There used to be small blue battery recycling boxes in our local supermarkets but this service seems to have been discontinued. Can anyone confirm this please?

    I assume that I have already paid the WEEE charge for the used batteries and I thought that vendors were obliged to take them back, but the absence of the blue boxes leads me to wonder whether this is still the position. I want to dispose of them corrctly, but there's no local council recycling depot withing 20 miles of me!


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  • #2
    hirondelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭hirondelle


    Any shop that sells batteries is legally obliged to accept batteries from members of the public, even if they don't have a recycling container on display. It might be worth contacting WEEE Ireland to make sure the retailer is complying- as you say, the takeback scheme is consumer funded and presumably the shop is making some money selling batteries.

    Edit- it drives me spare that people take the blue cardboard boxes then leave them filled in the shop and look for another one- when the box is full, just empty the batteries into a small bag and bring that! Rant over.


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