Home collection of waste batteries – Il Tirreno

LUCCA. In a few days even used batteries can be collected at home, like other household waste.

The initiative, promoted by the consortium ReMedia that deals with national sustainable management of technological waste, batteries and accumulators to the end of life, will begin Thursday, November 5 and will be shared with the cooperative Erica and Environment System .

“This is to further improve the collection door to door in the town of Lucca will be completed later this year, also reaching outlying remain uncovered – said the deputy Francesco Raspini. I am certain that the novelty will bring benefits to both users and the environment, given the harmfulness of such waste. ”

A day to each family of the Lucca will be delivered the kits for the collection of used batteries at home: a kit consisting primarily blue bags, to be displayed outside of the individual abitazini first Thursday of every month.

The commissioner Raspini, as well as the Director of Environment System Roberto Paolini, however, are convinced that the new initiative as part of the collection will be a success.

The experiment carried out last January in the villages of San Lorenzo a Vaccoli and Santa Maria del Giudice seems to confirm the validity of the initiative, given the significant increase in the amount of batteries collected.

“The result proved compelling reason to extend the collection to the entire City,” specify the Administrator and the Director of Environment System, recalling that one of Lucca appears to be the most virtuous provincial capital of Tuscany, with a rate of 66% recycling.

The ambition is to win over even the most privileged positions, they add, “thanks to the campaign

awareness that will soon be activated, with flyers and posters in high-traffic areas of the city and distribution of leaflets containing useful information to provide extra help to our environment. “

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