Battery recycling comes to Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire County Council (MCC) now has recycling banks for spent household batteries at their main household waste Recycling Centres in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Usk and Caerwent. In addition, following the implementation of the European Battery Directive, most of the larger stores selling small batteries now accept spent batteries for recycling.

All types of household batteries are accepted at the council sites including those from mobile phones, watches, power tools, lap-tops etc.

The council have also announced that residents can now recycle their used aluminium foil in the purple bag collection (up until recently this type of waste caused problems at the sorting facility).

Councillor Eric Saxon, Cabinet Member for waste said:

"We want to encourage residents to recycle as much of their waste as possible. We are constantly striving to increase the materials that can be recycled in the county and now we can add batteries to the long list. Remember, if you can't recharge them, recycle them!"

For more recycling information, contact the recycling team on 01633 644127.