You should only apply for approval if your business is operational or is ready to begin operations as soon as the approval is granted. Please note that you cannot treat or export automotive or industrial batteries without approval being granted. Contact online >>
You should only apply for approval if your business is operational or is ready to begin operations as soon as the approval is granted. Please note that you cannot treat or export automotive or industrial batteries without approval being granted.
You must follow extra rules if you manage waste batteries, including collection, treatment, recycling and export. These are in addition to your duty of care and hazardous waste regulation requirements.
The rules are different for waste portable, industrial and automotive batteries.
Evidence notes are proof of treatment, recycling or export of portable waste batteries by an ABTO or ABE.
It''s illegal to send waste industrial or vehicle and other automotive batteries for incineration or to landfill.
You must be an approved or appropriate person to apply for approval and submit data returns.
See the guidance on what constitutes an approved or appropriate person.
Use the delegation of approved/appropriate person form if you want to delegate your function to another person. Sign the form and send it to your environmental regulator.
Apply for approval on the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD).
Once approved you must comply with the conditions of approval.
To apply for approval you must have some form of UK presence; an office, a site or UK employees.
Once approved you must comply with the conditions of the approval.
ABEs must follow the Waste Shipment Regulations.
Use the waste export control tool to find the regulatory controls for your battery waste''s destination country.
Follow the waste export and import guidance to move waste batteries or waste battery materials like lead plates in or out of the UK for treatment and recycling.
If you export to a site located outside of the European Economic Area, you must provide evidence that the site ensures their waste operations won''t endanger human health or harm the environment. You can provide:
See the guidance on acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards.
If you''re an ABTO or ABE and don''t have an arrangement in place with a battery compliance scheme (BCS) to treat or recycle batteries, you can only act for them as a battery collector. If you later make an agreement to act as an ABTO or ABE for the BCS, then you must accept the batteries as an ABTO/ABE and may issue evidence notes.
You must store all waste batteries you accept as an ABTO or ABE in places with impermeable surfaces and suitable weatherproof coverings. Or the containers you use must have similar characteristics.
If you store batteries as a collector, your environmental permit will specify any storage conditions.
Sorting batteries is classed as treatment. Sorting batteries is by type; portable, automotive and industrial and/or by chemistry: lead-acid, nickel-cadmium and ''other''.
Treatment includes sorting and preparing waste batteries for recycling or disposal.
Treatment does not include separating waste batteries from other waste, for example from WEEE or vehicles.
If you receive mixed loads of waste batteries, you must accurately record the proportion of automotive, industrial and portable batteries in the load, either by sorting each load or applying an agreed protocol. You must also assess and exclude the weight of any contamination in the load (for example a ''lead'' ABTO accepts a load that includes ''non-lead-acid'' batteries - they record the lead batteries by type and everything else as contamination).
The recycling process is complete when the waste material is classed as end of waste and becomes usable for its original purpose (for example, extracted metals from waste batteries used in manufacturing components for new batteries) or for other purposes (for example, for manufacturing other components).
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