Citron SA and Loddon introduce recycling facility

Citron SA have teamed up with Loddon Recycling, to provide customers with a professional and technologically advanced recycling facility for batteries.

Businesses and local authorities will be able to correctly dispose of unused batteries, which will be broken down via heat at high temperatures.

Batteries go through an ‘oxyreducer’ process, which separates zinc, cadmium, lead and mercury at 1,200 degrees Celsius.

The batteries are then transported to the Hampshire facility for sorting, then driven to Portsmouth, and finally across the channel to the Le Havre facility, a small journey of just 60 miles, meaning the environmental implications of the transportation of the recycled product is minimal.

The partnership was partly due to the Citron claim of 100% efficiency, better than using any recycling plant currently operating in the UK.

Loddon already offers a red-bin battery-collection scheme in and around Hampshire, in partnership with Hampshire City Council, but are looking at the possibility of developing a nationwide operation in the near future.

The possibilities for recycling in the UK are endless and Loddon, with the help of Citron SA, are finally beginning to explore those possibilities and maximising the effect.