Batteries

The UK used 214 million batteries over Christmas, around 95% of those batteries are likely to be thrown out with other household waste and end up in landfill sites where they could leak harmful chemicals such as cadmium, mercury and lead into the soil.

Laws are to be introduced forcing shops to provide recycling facilities in the hope it will reduce the number ending up in landfill sites, however although this is a welcome step the fear is that the manufacturers who will fund the cost of recycling will increase prices to cover the cost.

One way around this may be to recondition used batteries so that they can be reused and save the cost of continually having to buy new batteries, it will also reduce the number of batteries needing to be disposed of. If the reconditioning was done on a small scale individuals would save money, done on a larger scale it would perhaps offer the budding entrepreneur a business opportunity.

If you want to find out more about reconditioning used batteries please click on the link below.
Recondition Battery