Asked by: Mike Penning (Conservative - Hemel Hempstead)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to encourage manufacturers to recycle material recovered from fossil fuel powered vehicles to help develop (a) new and (b) existing industries; and if will he make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The End-of-Life Vehicles (Producer Responsibility) Regulations 2005 set a material reuse and recycling rate of 85% for cars and vans (to 3.5 tonnes), no matter how they are fuelled, and an overall recovery rate of 95%. Obligations to meet these targets are placed on vehicle manufacturers and the treatment chain. Latest available figures are for 2015, when rates of 87.3% and 96.9% were achieved respectively.
Asked by: Mike Penning (Conservative - Hemel Hempstead)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Government plans to ensure that the environmental effects of vehicle battery manufacture, use and disposal are minimised; and if he will he make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
There are already a number of requirements applying to automotive battery manufacture, use and disposal. These include obligations under:
The Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008
The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003
The End-of-Life Vehicles (Producer Responsibility) Regulations 2005
There are controls on the materials used in battery manufacture and measures designed to maximise the recycling of automotive batteries, which are banned from disposal to landfill. Producers of automotive batteries must collect waste automotive batteries free of charge from final holders, on request, and batteries must be treated at appropriately permitted facilities.