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Retailers offer battery collection points

Three supermarket giants have signed up to battery compliance schemes to meet both their producer and retail obligations on portable batteries.

Tesco, ASDA and Morrison's have joined the BatteryBack scheme which is jointly run by Leeds based WasteCare and waste management company Veolia ES.

Morrison's is thought to have been the first supermarket to initiate collection schemes within many of its stores.

A forth retailer, Sainsbury's, claims to be the first supermarket to offer, via their scheme with Recolight, the collection of end-of-life energy saving light bulbs as well as batteries from its stores.

 

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