Household batteries between 1.5 and 9 volts can now be recycled at any Poole library.
Around 600 million UK batteries – 22,000 tonnes equivalent to the weight of 110 jumbo jets – are sent to landfill unnecessarily each year.
Battery recycling containers have been put into all libraries in Poole to enable residents to recycle their household batteries. Any battery of between 1.5 and 9 volts can be dropped into the containers where they will be collected free of charge by recycling contractor BatteryBack. They are then taken to be recycled rather than ending up in landfill where they cause lots of environmental problems due to the heavy metals they contain.
Cllr Don Collier, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for the Environment, Borough of Poole, said: "Poole has 65,000 households and with the average household using 21 batteries this means that 1.3 million batteries are thrown away every year. Batteries recycling containers are a great addition to the libraries and we would encourage people to use these if they are visiting their local library."
Please take your batteries to be recycled to one of the following libraries:
• Branksome
• Broadstone
• Canford Cliffs
• Canford Heath
• Creekmoor
• Hamworthy
• Oakdale
• Parkstone
• Poole Central
• Rossmore
There will are also collection points at:
• Ashdown Leisure Centre
• Rossmore Leisure Centre
• Environmental & Consumer Protection, Newfields Business Park, Stinsford Road
All types of batteries including car batteries can be taken to the Nuffield Household Waste Recycling Centre to be recycled.
