Battery producers join Valpak compliance scheme
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More than 220 businesses potentially obligated by the new UK Battery Regulations have joined Valpak's pre-compliance scheme.
All obligated companies will have to join a compliance scheme - and Valpak has submitted its application and is currently waiting for approval to be granted.
In his speech at the Chartered Institute of Waste Management's recent Conference, Bob Mead, Environment Agency's battery project head, stated that the agency would be looking for prospective battery compliance schemes to show three main competencies: an ability to attract member companies; sufficient supply of collected batteries to satisfy their members' obligations; and the experience and financial stability to offer long-term security.
Valpak has taken over all of the existing UK kerbside battery collection schemes set up in 2007 by Wrap, and is in discussions with more than 50 other local authorities also keen to establish battery collection systems.
In addition, the company is continuing constructive dialogue with numerous large retail businesses about the collection and recycling of the batteries that they will collect from the public from February 2010.
When combined with other potential sources such as businesses and existing treatment operators, Valpak is confident that it will have a large and stable supply of batteries for recycling.
Valpak said that it operates the UK's largest pre-compliance information service for all businesses that think they may be affected by the Battery Regulations.
It is now available free of charge to any potentially obligated company.
The service includes free member seminars and individual advice, simple explanations and expert interpretations of the law, plus up-to-date information.
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