Moncrieff<\/a>,\u00a0 WEEE Ireland CEO Leo Donovan said there are huge economic benefits to recycling something that has already been used.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0\u201cThe reason we want to do that is primarily to recover all the metals and parts of that’s in the battery, prevent the battery going into landfill and causing contamination,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut safety, I suppose, is also one other particular reason that we don’t want people leaving batteries hanging around our house for any length of time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Plenty of people simply tip their old batteries into a bin; however, Mr Donovan pleaded with people not to do this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe risk of putting them into your waste bin is the bin gets crushed, it gets compacted,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that process, compacting potentially the battery could get damaged and then it could be terminal runaway and potentially a fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, that’s why a lot of the waste management companies have a message out there to customers, don’t bin your batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n
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