As part of their ongoing commitment to the Environment, JKL Solutions are actively encouraging all of their customers to recycle used batteries in a responsible manner.
"Whether those batteries have been purchased from JKL or not, we would ask that our customers visit www.batteryback.org to understand the need to recycle batteries and to find their nearest collection point" commented JKL Director Nick Miles.
Some important facts about the battery recycling are as follows:-
Where do battery collections go?
After the customer deposits the batteries into one of our BatteryCans we send them to one of two sites in Belgium where the company REVATECH S.A. recycles them. Revatech as a company recovers and disposes of some 155,000 tonnes of dangerous and non-dangerous industrial waste annually, by mechanical, biological and physico-chemical processes.
The recycling process
REVABAT® is a wet recycling process for alkaline and zinc-carbon batteries. This process, developed by REVATECH, is used to recycle the magnetic (steel) and non-magnetic (zinc and brass) metal fractions, recycle the different components of the "black mass" (zinc, carbon and manganese), and reprocess the plastics. The overall recycling rate is at least 55% of the gross weight of the batteries treated, and is well within the norms contemplated by the European Commission.
For more information visit
www.batteryback.org or contact the JKL Customer Service Team on 0844 940 9410.