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News Release from: SGS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 October 2006
Battery waste directive set for
amendment
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The EU and its member states are negotiating a further amendment to the 1991 Directive on Batteries and Accumulators.
Introduced in 1991, the EU Directive on Batteries and Accumulators (91/157/EEC) requires member states to take appropriate steps to ensure that spent batteries and accumulators are collected separately with a view to their recovery or disposal It requires that batteries containing more than 25mg of mercury (except alkaline manganese batteries), 0.025% of cadmium by weight and 0.4% lead by weight to be collected separately from household waste for recycling or special disposal
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)