Currently, most batteries collected through household battery collection programs are disposed of in hazardous waste landfills.

Even stores and chains that have established take-back programs admit that it often ends up in the trash. There are no known recycling facilities in the UK that can practically and cost-effectively reclaim all types of household batteries, although facilities exist that reclaim some button batteries.

Battery collection programs typically target button and nickel-cadmium batteries, but may collect all household batteries because of the consumers’ difficulty in identifying battery types.

All electrical and electronic items that are recycled by Secure Data Recycling are checked for battery content and all batteries are recycled properly.

At all times Secure Data Recycling aim to avoid use of landfill.