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Legislation sets out UK battery-recycling rules |
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April 15, 2009.
The Parliament in the United Kingdom has been presented with new legislation regarding the collection, treatment and recycling of waste batteries and accumulators in the UK.
The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 legislation, introduced on Tuesday, requires anyone placing batteries on the market to register as a producer of batteries and report on waste batteries collected and sent for recycling, and lays out requirements for the treatment and recycling of waste batteries. ... more
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Exide to cease US battery recycling operations |
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March 24, 2009.
Exide Technologies, a US company that recycles batteries, says it will temporarily shut down its operations in Baton Rouge, laying off 132 workers. The company says it anticipates resuming operations in Baton Rouge "when market conditions allow". ... more
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Metal Blanc’s majority share in Dutch battery recycler |
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January 23, 2009.
Netherlands / France | Through its parent company Financière de Coelho, French lead battery recycling specialist Metal Blanc has acquired a majority interest in Dutch battery sorting company Van Peperzeel BV. ... more
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French battery recycler obtains major investment |
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November 27, 2008.
Hazardous waste management specialist and battery recycler Recupyl S.A.S., which is headquartered in Grenoble, France, has received a commitment for a Euro 14.5 million (US$ 18.7 million) capital injection.
Recupyl currently has recycling plants in Singapore, France, Spain and the UK (under license) and is developing many other opportunities. ... more
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Recognition for Umicore’s battery recycling |
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October 08, 2008.
Umicore has been nominated as one of Europe’s ten most innovative clean-tech companies at the Dow Jones Clean Tech Summit in Frankfurt, Germany. The nomination covered the Belgian company’s technology for recycling end-of-life rechargeable batteries. ... more
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Recylex steps in battery recycling in Algeria |
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July 04, 2008.
Specialist in lead recycling Recylex has announced its first international development outside France, Belgium and Germany. A lead acid battery processing plant designed by Recylex engineers is being built at Aïn Ouassara, 200 km to the South of Alger (Algeria). Operations should start at the end of December 2008. ... more
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Exide opens second India lead smelter |
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June 05, 2008.
Battery producer and recycler Exide Industries Ltd from Mumbai, India will invest 350 million rupees (US$8.2 million) to set up a second smelter in India.
The firm is in talks with local smelter firms, it says. In October 2007, Exide Industries had bought lead smelter Tandon Metals Pvt Ltd, to access recycled raw materials and cut dependence on high-cost imported lead. ... more
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International battery recycling congress 2003 |
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April 01, 2003.
The forthcoming International Battery Recycling Congress 2003, to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, on June 18-20, will focus on legislation affecting different schemes for collecting and recycling spent batteries and accumulators. ... more
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EU wants new battery recycling directive |
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April 01, 2003.
The Environment Directorate of the European Commission has announced a new round of consultation on plans to draft a comprehensive directive on battery waste collection and recycling, according to the U.K.-based environmental news agency ENDS Daily. It is to be among the first legislative proposals to pass through an ‘extended impact assessment’ under the commission’s better regulation initiative. ... more
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Battery recycling ‘call for papers’ |
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November 01, 2003.
Swiss congress organiser ICM will stage the 9th International Congress for Battery Recycling (ICBR) in the Italian city of Como on June 2-4 next year. ... more
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Pilot plant for recycling lithium-ion batteries |
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November 01, 2003.
U.K.-based AEA Technology plc (AEAT) is targeting ‘a significant part’ of the European market for lithium-ion battery recycling in launching a £2 million (US$ 3.3 million) research and development facility in Sutherland in the far north of Scotland. ... more
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International Battery Recycling Congress |
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April 01, 2004.
The 9th International Battery Recycling Congress will take place on June 2-4 2004 in the beautiful northern Italian city of Como. ... more
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UN supports ‘Green Lead’ project |
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April 01, 2005.
The Steering Committee of the ‘Green Lead’ project, a lead industry product stewardship initiative, has received financial support from the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) for its development workshop in London on April 27-28.
An inter-governmental financial institution established by the United Nations, CFC’s main objective is to assist developing nations which are dependent on the production and export of primary commodities. The main target groups are commodity producers in least-developed countries and the poorer strata of population in other developing countries. ... more
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Lead-acid batteries top US recycling list |
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September 01, 2005.
Between 1999 and 2003, the US lead-acid battery industry was helped by consumers and retailers to reach a recycling rate 99.2% for used battery lead - equivalent to 11.7 billion pounds or 5.3 million tonnes of metal. ... more
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Call for papers ICBR |
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December 01, 2005.
The 11th International Congress for Battery Recycling organised by ICM will take place from 28-30 June 2006 in the beautiful mountain resort Interlaken, Switzerland. ... more
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Parliament calls for tighter controls on batteries |
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January 01, 2006.
The European Parliament’s environment committee wants stricter controls on batteries to be laid down in the forthcoming revision of the EU’s battery legislation. ... more
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International Battery Recycling Congress: call for papers |
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January 01, 2006.
The ICM-organised 11th International Congress for Battery Recycling (ICBR) will take place at Interlaken in Switzerland on June 28-30 this year. ... more
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Battery sorter shipped to Greece |
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January 01, 2006.
In 2005, the city council in the Greek capital Athens set up a battery recycling and sorting project known as Diasbat. ... more
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Rough ride likely for battery proposals |
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March 01, 2006.
Early feedback suggests the EU Council of Ministers is unlikely to accept the European Parliament’s proposal to increase the battery recycling rate from 50% to 55% under the new battery directive. ... more
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China studies best car battery recycling practices |
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August 01, 2006.
Through an alliance designed to identify global best practice in automotive battery recycling, Johnson Controls and the Chinese government have undertaken a tour of world-class smelters in Europe and North America. ... more
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Directive set to boost European battery recycling |
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October 01, 2006.
The 17 members companies of the Brussels-based European Battery Recycling Association (EBRA) recycled 25 850 tonnes of used portable batteries and 3200 tonnes of industrial Ni-Cd batteries last year. ... more
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EBRA applauds new battery directive |
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November 01, 2006.
While welcoming the new EU Battery Directive, the European Battery Recycling Association (EBRA) says the recycling capacities already exist to allow faster implementation of the various targets. ... more
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International Battery Recycling Congress |
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February 01, 2007.
The 12th International Congress for Battery Recycling, staged by Swiss organisation ICM, will take place on June 20-22 this year in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Set to attract leading experts in the field, the event will include: an update of global legislative issues surrounding the battery industry; reports on the implementation of the EU’s new Battery Directive; an outline of recent developments relating to battery manufacturers’ recycling activities; an overview of the international battery market and collection systems; and an analysis of safety issues in the production, use, collection and recycling of batteries. Other themes to be covered will include: eco-design and the ‘removeability’ of batteries from electronics; hybrid vehicles; mobile phone battery systems; developments in rechargeable battery technologies; best available technologies for battery recycling; and the impact of the EU’s REACH and RoHS regulations on battery manufacturers and recyclers.
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New plant for Dutch battery processor |
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May 01, 2007.
W. A. van Peperzeel - the Dutch firm specialising in collecting, sorting and processing household/car batteries and non-ferrous metals - has laid the foundation stone for its new plant at Lelystad in the Netherlands. The formal ceremony was performed by company founder Wim van Peperzeel, father of current Managing Director Johan en Marco van Peperzeel.
Since its formation in 1978, the family-owned company has enjoyed continuous growth, notably after it sealed a contract with Dutch battery association Stibat in 1996 which covered the sorting of all household batteries collected in the Netherlands. In October 2003, W. A. van Peperzeel acquired the car battery division of waste management company Sita - a deal which led directly to the proposal to construct a larger plant.
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