WRAPs Battery Collection Programme an update

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WRAPs Battery CollectionProgramme an update

• Chris Davey
• Batteries Programme Manager

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The EU Batteries Directive

• Published on 26th September 2006
• Must be transposed into UK legislation by
  26/9/08
• Creates three categories of batteries
  Portable,
• Industrial and Automotive
• Sets Collection Rate target for portable
  batteries and a
• ban on landfilling or incinerating Industrial
  and Automotive
• batteries
• Sets Recycling Efficiency targets by chemistry
  (65 for
• lead acid, 75 for Nickel Cadmium and 50 for
  all
• others)
• Introduces a ban on using Nickel Cadmium except
  for
• certain uses and a review within four years
  on many of
• those

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WRAPs Battery Programme

• Establish the most cost-effective methods of
  collecting batteries to meet the Collection Rate
  targets through running various collection trials
• Identify and remove the barriers to
  cost-effective collections
• To facilitate the development of infrastructure
  for the collection consolidation, sorting and
  recycling of batteries
• To assess the recycling routes for industrial and
  sealed lead-acid batteries

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Current Collection Trials

• Kerbside trials
• Retailer take-back trials
• Community drop-off trials
• Postal trials
• Single transport/sorting and recycling contractor
• Programme wide marketing and PR contractors

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Hazardous Waste Dangerous Goods

• EWC defines mixed batteries containing certain
  batteries as Hazardous (Special) Waste thereby
  imposing containment, licensing and legal
  paperwork issues
• Carriage of Dangerous Goods Acts impose packing
  and training issues not designed for small
  movements of mixed battery wastes
• Conflicting (?) requirements for small quantities

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Hazardous Waste Dangerous Goods
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The Kerbside Trials

• 12 collection schemes in 13 local authority areas
• All schemes are kerbside sort (or single other
  material)
• Launched in April and May 2006
• Uses new WRAP branding logos (or Scottish
  equivalent)
• Variety of social demographics
• Range of collection frequencies
• Range of size of schemes

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The Kerbside Trials

• 12 collection schemes in 13 local authority areas
• All schemes are kerbside sort (or single other
  material)
• Launched in April and May 2006
• Uses new WRAP branding logos (or Scottish
  equivalent)
• Variety of social demographics
• Range of collection frequencies
• Range of size of schemes

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The Kerbside Trials

• 12 collection schemes in 13 local authority areas
• All schemes are kerbside sort (or single other
  material)
• Launched in April and May 2006
• Uses new WRAP branding logos (or Scottish
  equivalent)
• Variety of social demographics
• Range of collection frequencies
• Range of size of schemes

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The Kerbside Trials

• Results to date
• 59 boxes collected and sorted by mid Jan
• 27,340 KGs of batteries about 1,100,000
  batteries
• About 32gms per capita so far (not full year)
• Mix of chemistries
• Alkaline/zinc carbon 92.1
• Nickel Cadmium 2.7
• Primary Lithium 0.3
• Nickel Metal Hydride 1.3
• Li-ion 0.6
• Lead-acid 2.6
• Button batteries 0.1
• Other batteries 0.1

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Retailer Take-back Trials

• Consortium of four main retailers using seven
  brands
• Tesco,
• PC World,
• Currys Currys.digital,
• Argos,
• Homebase,
• BQ
• Launched in Swansea Eastleigh on October 2006
• Perth Kinross launches on 16th March
• A bring scheme designed to use reverse logistics

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Community Drop-off Trials

• Due to launch in London Borough of Camden and
  Cherwell District at the end of March 2007 with
  Falkirk (BTCV Scotland) to launch shortly
  afterwards
• Minimum target density of 1 collection point per
  5000 residents and a maximum target density of 1
  point per 1000 residents
• Servicing to be done by collection partner

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Postal Trials

• Due to launch shortly in Eden (Cumbria) and the
  Wigtown district of Dumfries Galloway
• Targeted at rural communities without kerbside
  collections or effective bring networks
• Business reply service envelopes restrict should
  use to our trial areas only

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Other projects

• Definitions Project need to define which
  batteries are truly portable/industrial/automotive
  
• Brand identification work long list of brands
  and their relative importance within each
  chemistry grouping
• Black mass advanced recycling project (RD)
• Other work to assist transposition activities
• Recovery of batteries from WEEE

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Other items containing batteries
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Next developments

• Extension of kerbside scheme to include a
  commingled collection (wheelie) scheme must
  separate at kerbside
• Limited collection scheme with NHS/Fire Rescue
  services etc.
• Determining ways to collect industrial batteries

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Any Questions?

• Chris Davey
• Manager Local Authority Relations
• Batteries Programme Manager
• 01295 819915
• chris.davey_at_wrap.org.uk
• www.wrap.org.uk