Each user of batteries has to contribute, by adopting responsible behaviour, to the protection of the environment.
Batteries (both primary and rechargeable) are widely used tools: it is estimated that in 2008 more than 300 million portable (cylindrical) batteries were sold and almost as many must have been contained within Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
And to these must, of course, be added the enormous quantities of industrial and ignition accumulators.
The quantities of batteries and accumulators in circulation are incredibly high and it is therefore very important that all the public feels involved in the problem of the correct disposal of this waste, which must be channelled into an adequate collection system.
In addition, the batteries and accumulators which are made up od hazardous chemical components such as cadmium, mercury and lead which produce the waste from batteries, accumulators are highly polluting for the environment and dangerous for human health.
Do you have spent batteries?
DON’T discard them in the environment, DON’T dispose of them in the unseparated rubbish bin
follow the symbol of separated collection and you’ll be doing good to the environment!
The crossed-out wheely bin is the symbol of separated collection
Visible fee? No thanks!
N.B.: the legislation that governs the waste batteries and accumulators (DLgs 188/08) sets out in Article 13 Paragraph 5 that:
The costs of the collection, treatment and recycling are not separately indicated to the end users at the time of the sale of new portable batteries and accumulators.