Help to prevent fires and look after wildlife
Batteries mustn’t be put in with our rubbish or recycling as they pose a significant fire risk once crushed by the bin lorries.
And, if they end up in a landfill site, they can leak toxic chemicals (including lead, cadmium, zinc, lithium and mercury) into the ground, which can cause soil and water pollution, damaging ecosystems and wildlife.
Batteries play a huge part in our everyday lives and can probably be found in every room in our homes. In the UK we throw away around 600 million batteries every year. That’s a lot of batteries and, if they were laid end-to-end they’d reach from here to Australia and back again!
Dead batteries can already be taken to a number of places, but in Buriton we’re now making that easier for everyone: just pop into the church and put them into the new container there, so that they can all be sent for recycling.
Recycling any type of used battery is a great way to help protect the environment. Each battery placed in any recycling bin will be safely taken apart and the materials will be used to make something new.
