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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9227

7 July 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
New directive on recycling used batteries and accumulators formally adopted

Strasbourg, 06/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - By 2008, each EU Member State will have been expected to have elaborated its nation plan on the collection and recycling of all used batteries. This forms part of a new European directive that has just been adopted, for encouraging all Member States to organise selective collections and recycling of waste, together with timetabled minimum objectives and conditions for the elimination of led, mercury and cadmium. These three heavy metals will be banned...

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