Key provisions in the Directive
Key provisions are:
- Restrictions on the use of mercury and cadmium in batteries
- Labelling requirements for new batteries to aid consumer choice and recycling
- 25% collection rate for waste portable batteries to be met by September 2012, rising to 45% by September 2016
- Prohibition on the disposal by landfill or incineration of waste industrial and automotive batteries – in effect setting a 100% collection and recycling target
- The introduction of “producer responsibility” obligations
- The setting of recycling efficiencies to ensure that a high proportion of the weight of waste batteries is recycled
- The setting of waste battery treatment standards
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