On March 11, 2020, 20 tons of used batteries were packaged for Ukraine’s first-ever shipment of recycled batteries to the European Union. The project organized by the Dnipro-based non-profit “Batareyky Zdavaites!” (or Batteries Give In!) began as a program providing boxes for battery recycling in 2013. As Ukraine lacks infrastructure to process the used batteries, they accumulated in warehouses before the organization arranged for their transport to processing facilities in the EU.
In the first round of shipments, approximately one million batteries will be sent to the GreenWEEE recycling plant in Romania. Batteries Give In! estimates that the shipment will save 1600 hectares of land from permanent contamination.
Read more about the program in “As Ukraine struggles to recycle batteries, EU lights the way.”
