Recycling at Buy Energizer

The Challenge

Reduce the environmental impact of our activties and the products we sell.

UK households dispose of over 1.2 million tonnes of electrical and electronic waste every year. This is the equivalent of 150,000 double decker buses and would be enough to fill the new Wembley Stadium 6 times over. Much of the UK’s electronic waste ends up in landfill sites, where toxins put communities at risk. Failure to segregate any type of recyclable material in the home will usually result in items being disposed of in a landfill site (buried in the ground in the UK) or being incinerated.

Activities

Helping to recycle your old or used batteries. Why are we involved?

Recycling facilities are now available at our premises for anyone who wishes to deposit their old or used batteries with us.

This is a requirement under UK and European law (The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations). Recycling batteries helps prevent the negative environmental effects of sending batteries to landfill.

As a conscientious business, we have chosen to group together with other retailers in joining the Distributor Take Back Scheme. Through this scheme, we have paid towards the provision of improved of recycling facilities for our customers throughout the UK.

Please follow the link to Recycle-More Batteries to learn more about recycling, the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations and also locate recycling facilities local to you.

Please note: Used batteries should NOT be posted back to us.

Helping to recycle your old or used electrical equipment. Why are we involved?

Recycling facilities are now available throughout the UK so all customers can recycle their old electrical products. We've contributed to this and are of the Distributor Take Back Scheme. Recycling of old or used electrical equipment is a requirement under UK and European legislation (The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment or WEEE Directive). The aim of the legislation is to;

Make good use of the materials that make up old electrical equipment by recycling rather than disposing in landfill.
Prevent the negative environmental effects of sending often hazardous electrical equipment to landfill.

Customers will be able to take any old electrical equipment to participating civic amenity sites (often known as ‘household waste recycling centres’) run by their local councils. This equipment will be further handled during the recycling process, so please be considerate when depositing your equipment.

You can locate your closest participating collection site at Recycle-More Electricals (please remember to have your postcode to hand).

To remind you to recycle, all new electrical products are marked with a crossed out wheeled bin symbol.