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02 Jun

#BatteryRegulation: How Valmet Automotive is preparing for a digital battery passport

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18 May

#Batteryregulation: The upcoming Battery Regulation of the EU emphasises producer responsibility and changes our way of using, manufacturing and recycling accumulators and batteries

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24 Mar

Recycling batteries and accumulators supports the circular economy effectively

The producer organisations’ battery webinar provided a comprehensive overview of the current state of the recycling of batteries and accumulators and the changes that will be brought about by the Batteries Regulation. The webinar, aimed at the boards and owners of producer organisations, provided an insight...

27 Oct

Number of fires caused by ‘zombie’ batteries on the rise in Finland – sort your waste to avoid hazards

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...

15 Oct

A New Waste Act entered into force in July – what changes for producers?

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...

16 Aug

Online retailers selling batteries and accumulators to customers in Finland must take care of their producer responsibility by the end of 2021

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...

12 Apr

National waste legislation imposes new obligations on international e-commerce – new statutes will enter into force in July 2021

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...

16 Mar

Recser Oy’s CEO Liisa-Marie Stenbäck on Kesko’s Viewpoints blog: 3 important reasons to recycle batteries and accumulators

“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,...

11 Feb

#Kierrossa: Entrepreneurs with a background in farming developed a fertiliser suitable for organic farming from used alkaline batteries

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...

22 Dec

Significantly higher standards set for the collection and recovery rates of batteries and accumulators and their environmental impact throughout their life cycles in a new European Commission proposal

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...

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