The Waste Management Batteries and Accumulators Regulations have been designed to prevent/reduce the amount of waste batteries going into landfill by promoting their reuse, recycling and recovery.
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Batteries covered by the regulations will have a crossed out wheelie bin symbol on either the battery and/or its packaging. The different types of portable batteries and accumulators supplied within electrical and electronic products sold by NEXT are button cells, cylinder cells and rechargeable batteries e.g. found in a watch or toy. |
You may return old, used batteries to any NEXT Store within the Republic of Ireland free of charge providing:
- The battery is a similar type to that sold by NEXT e.g. button cells (all types), cylinder cells (all types e.g. AA, AAA, C, D) and rechargeable batteries (all types)
- No more than 5kg of batteries per person is returned at any one time
- The batteries you return do not pose a Health & Safety risk to NEXT staff e.g. leaking
- You are a householder; this service does not apply to business customers
- The store is open: returns can only be made during trading hours
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is taken back free of charge on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. Waste batteries including rechargeable batteries are taken back free of charge. You are not obliged to make any purchase when returning old batteries.
Each local authority must also accept household WEEE and small batteries free of charge at its recycling facilities.
All WEEE and waste batteries must be recycled and should not be placed in any of your household wheelie bins. Make sure you always recycle all your old electrical goods and batteries.
Where possible, end of life batteries should be safely removed from electrical or electronic products before being recycled. See Instruction Manual of product for information on safe battery removal.
If this is not possible, the product can be recycled with the battery incorporated at your local WEEE take back site.
If you have any queries regarding this, please contact us on Next Customer Services,
Next Retail Ltd is registered with the WEEE Register Society Limited (IE00376WB) and WEEE Ireland (NEX100) supporting collective takeback and recycling of WEEE & Batteries.