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Feature - Battery farming

The UK has dragged its feet when it comes to sustainably handling the vast number of batteries when the reach the end of their life, each year over 600 million household batteries end up in landfill. With the European Union’s introduction of a Battery Directive the onus is on Member States to solve this problem. Libby Peake takes a look at how some of WRAP’s trial initiatives to find a solution have been getting on.

Crash-It has established itself as a leading provider of refurbished computers to low income groups and individuals in Birmingham, while offering training. The Waste Paper finds out whether the introduction of the WEEE directive has affected their acitivity.

Cartons are a notoriously difficult form of packaging to recycle, making the economics of collection generally unfavourable. Nicola Martin examines the Tetrapak website, which makes the case for the use of cartons and desbribes the recycling options in each part of the UK.