Batteries that have been incorrectly disposed of will come back to life when damaged, and they result in disastrous fires every month in homes and during waste management. Since the start of 2020, rescue departments have registered 20 fires caused by zombie batteries, i.e. mishandled chargeable and...
The long-prepared extensive reform of the Waste Act was approved and entered into force in Finland on 19 July 2021. The most significant change introduced by the reform concerns producer responsibility obligations, which now also extend to distance sellers, such as foreign online retailers that...
The long-prepared extensive reform of the Waste Act was approved and entered into force in Finland on 19 July 2021. The reform entails that in the future, the obligations of producer responsibility will also pertain to so-called distance sellers, i.e. operators such as foreign online...
The most significant changes for battery and accumulator producers are the inclusion of international online retail in the producer responsibility scheme and the overarching obligation to join a producer responsibility organisation. The proposal for a legislative reform that was circulated for comment in spring 2020 has...
“Over the past two decades, batteries and accumulators have become an integral part of our daily lives: most of our devices run on them. At the same time, technological development has enabled the use of smaller but more powerful accumulators in smart devices and vehicles,...
Used batteries are collected with red boxes found in stores all around Finland. A significant portion, about 80 percent, of all the batteries that end up in those boxes are alkaline batteries. For Tracegrow, the idea for our company’s process grew out of this specific...
The proposal, published on 10 December, aims to bring Europe towards a climate-neutral and competitive economy of accumulator material based on the principles of circular economy. The new regulation concerning batteries and accumulators has an effect on their entire life cycles, and it is directly...
Finland is in the process of integrating the EU waste regulation package into national legislation. One of the long-awaited targets is to have producer responsibility also cover distance selling. The waste act that was circulated for comment at the beginning of summer will be processed...
The import of large lithium accumulators has increased in recent years, and now there is also an official collection system for them. Accumulators used in devices such as electric bicycles, electric scooters, self-balancing unicycles, mopeds, ATVs and ride-on lawn mowers can now be returned to...
Welcome to our new website! From now on, you can recognise Recser Oy and Battery Recycling by our new logos and visual style, as well as our colourful battery family. ...
