Dragonfly together with Stibat
Battery on your nose
If you thought that returned empty batteries are destroyed, you are wrong. Empty batteries are still full of advantages, making them easy to recycle. A battery contains all kinds of valuable metals such as iron, lead, zinc and manganese. These can be recovered from an empty battery and processed into all kinds of new products. You probably didn’t expect these 5:
- A cheese slicer – 8 empty batteries
- A pair of glasses – 14 empty batteries
- 50 euro cents – 27 empty batteries
- a watering can – 272 empty batteries
- Barbecue – 2029 empty batteries
107 batteries in the house
A Dutch household has an average of 107 batteries. New, empty and batteries in use. Most batteries are used in devices, there are already about 69 of them. Now you think: but I don’t have that many devices at all? Sure, but also think of the remote control, the milk frother, the fire alarm and your keyboard…
By handing in your empty batteries, we need to extract less raw materials from nature.
This is how you recycle
Collect empty batteries in a permanent place in the house, for example in a container on the kitchen counter. Or request a free Battery Storage Box here at. When the box is full, hand in the empty batteries at one of Stibat’s many collection points. Did you know that at hardware stores, drugstores and many primary schools, there is also a collection box?
Tip: if you can buy batteries somewhere, you can also hand them in there.
Stibat arranges it
The collection, sorting and recycling of used batteries is arranged by Stibat. This organization also ensures that empty batteries can be returned to more than 25,000 locations in the Netherlands. For more information about return and recycling, see emptybatteries.nl†
- What do you do with empty batteries?