Battery acid and other components of Lead Acid batteries are toxic for the environment and cannot be thrown away as general waste. Here are a list of websites and places you can visit as relate to Lead Acid Battery Recycling in the UK. 1 ) Your local municipal waste disposal facility.
This guidance applies to waste automotive, industrial and portable lead acid batteries. It does not apply to other types of waste battery. The plastic cases of waste lead acid batteries may contain persistent organic pollutants (POPs). You can identify if a waste lead acid battery may contain POPs by checking: Where the battery case is made of :
Here are a list of websites and places you can visit as relate to Lead Acid Battery Recycling in the UK. 1 ) Your local municipal waste disposal facility. Here items like batteries can be properly classified as hazardous waste and disposed of on your behalf.
Where POPs will be destroyed, you may include recovery of lead or recycling of plastic that does not contain POPs. The combination of hazardous waste and POPs severely restricts both destination countries and allowed waste management options. You must notify the export of lead acid batteries from England to destinations outside the UK.
You may only temporarily store or repackage waste lead acid batteries containing POPs before: You must also sort lead acid batteries with polypropylene cases, that should not contain POPs, from those with other cases. You must also hold an environmental permit or exemption that allows this activity.
Things to note Waste classification guidance for lead acid vehicle batteries from households states they must be coded 16 06 01. We are aware that some HWRC permits currently only have waste code 20 01 33 (batteries and accumulators included in 16 06 01, 16 06 02 or 16 06 03 and unsorted batteries and accumulators containing these batteries).