Waste batteries: treat, recycle and export
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Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Approved or appropriate person
- ABTO: apply for approval
- ABE: apply for approval
- Export and import laws
- Equivalent standards
- How much it costs
- Battery collector
- Comply with the conditions of your approval
- Store waste batteries
- Sort waste batteries
- Treat waste batteries
- Mixed loads
- Recycling
- Protocols
- Keep records and report
- Issue evidence notes: portable batteries
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Waste batteries: treat, recycle and export’ (updated 11 May 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026