Rochdale residents can now Recycle Used Batteries

At long last, the recycling of batteries is becoming a reality in Rochdale. It’s actually amazing just how many hundreds of thousands of batteries are junked every year. Due to the toxic nature of a battery’s constituents, up until now, used discarded, batteries have created a huge potential danger because the heavy metals that they contain can contaminate the ground, causing an environmental hazard, when they are buried in landfill sites along with other domestic waste.

Rochdale Council, alongside the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, has recently created special dry cell battery recycling facilities at three of their household waste recycling centres across the region. As well as providing residents with a legitimate way of disposing of their illegal used batteries, it is also good for the councils overall recycling credentials, as it will significantly increase their recycling figures.

The new recycling plant in Rochdale is located in Chichester Street, and as well as general household waste, and its new battery recycling capability, the plant has also been upgraded to recycle fluorescent tubes. They are another highly hazardous item responsible for creating 4 tonnes of highly toxic mercury waste each and every year nationwide that also finds its way into landfill sites. Just to put this into perspective, the mercury contained in one single fluorescent tube has the potential to pollute as much as 30,000 of water.

As well as setting up these three new facilities across the borough, the council has also provided additional staff with a view to helping residents to sort out their waste for more efficient recycling.

Rochdale council are rightly proud of their achievements, and have gone on record, via their Waste Minimisation Manager, Tara Dumas, to say that these new initiatives illustrate their commitment to help residents of the borough to improve their recycling profile. In one single year across the nation, approximately 700,000 million batteries go to landfill sites, so these new initiatives can help to make a significant improvement to the nation’s record of recycling dry cell batteries.

Dry cell batteries, (the type that power clocks and TV programmers etc), have had a poor track record to date when it comes to recycling, with as little as only 5% making the journey. This is in comparison to a recycling rate of 95% when it comes to wet cell car batteries.

Only a few months ago, Britain’s first dry cell battery recycling plant was opened in the Midlands and can potentially process as much as 1,500 tonnes of alkaline waste, and zinc carbon batteries every year.

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