Battery Recycling

Shops selling more than 32kg of batteries a year (equivalent to selling one pack of AA batteries a week) now have to provide battery recycling collection facilities in store.

If you do not live near a supermarket you can take them to the following place to be recycled:

• Central library and museum, John Frost Square

• Household Waste Recycling Centre, Docksway

• Information Station, Queensway

• Maindee car park recycling bay

• Newport Centre, Kingsway

• Tregwilym road recycling bay

• Wastesavers Community Furniture Shop, Commercial Road.

How to cut down on battery waste

To reduce your battery waste you can do a few simple things:

• Use rechargeable batteries wherever possible - you can even buy a solar powered recharger

• Plug electrical equipment into the mains electricity

• Try to buy appliances that use renewable energy: a wind-up radio or torch, dynamo bicycle lights or a solar powered calculator

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