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Sales and collection of portable batteries and accumulators
Sales (products put on the market) and collection (waste collected) of portable batteries and accumulators from 2009 to 2019 are presented in Tables 1a and 1b, covering data for the European Union, the EU Member States, and for available EFTA countries. In 2019, around 205 000 tonnes of portable batteries and accumulators were put on the market (sales) in the EU, while around 100 000 tonnes of used portable batteries and accumulators were collected as recyclable waste. Thus, slightly more than half of the average annual sales of portable batteries (calculated on the period 2017-2019) were collected for recycling in year 2019.
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(tonnes)
Source: Eurostat (env_waspb)
The amount of portable batteries and accumulators sold varies strongly across the EU Member States, with individual Member States ranging from 172 tonnes to nearly 56 000 tonnes in 2019. Overall, country-specific sales have increased over the period from 2009 to 2019, with volumes increasing for most Member States but remaining stable or slightly decreasing for a few others.
The data indicate that collection of waste portable batteries and accumulators is lower than sales. Between 2009 and 2019, collection of waste batteries increased steadily in almost all Member States, with only a few exceptions that show oscillation around a slightly growing trend.
Figure 1 shows the development of the collection and sales of portable batteries and accumulators in the EU. Sales grew slightly in the period 2009-2019: from a relatively high level in 2010 (176 000 tonnes), the amounts fell slightly to 169 000 tonnes in 2013, before rising steadily up to 205 000 tonnes in 2019. By contrast, collection of waste batteries and accumulators has increased steadily in the EU since 2009. Starting from a level of around 50 000 tonnes in 2009, collection increased to around 100 000 tonnes by 2019.
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(tonnes)
Source: Eurostat (env_waspb)
The Batteries Directive defines targets for the collection rates of portable batteries and accumulators. The target for 2012 was a collection rate of 25 %, rising to 45 % by 2016. In 2019 nineteen of the EU Member States recorded a collection rate of portable waste batteries of 45 % or more, with the highest nearly attaining 91 %; moreover, the Member State that has not yet reported 2019 data had reached the collection target in the previous year (2018) (see Table 2). The most recent available data indicate a collection rate above the former 25 % target for all EU Member States. Collection rates are calculated based on the sales data in Table 1a and the collection data in Table 1b, as a ratio of the weight of the collected batteries in a reference year divided by the average of the weight of the batteries sold during the reference year and the previous two years.
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Source: Eurostat (env_waspb)