Tesco has just announced that it has joined the BatteryBack recycling scheme, which means that battery recycling points will be put in all Tesco stores nationwide to allow customers to dispose of their old batteries correctly.

Purchasing Manager of Tesco, Huw Clifford said “We believe major retails will be key in helping Britain hit battery recycling targets.” Currently only 3% of batteries are recycled in this country but to meet the European targets this must rise to 25% by 2012.

Batteryback is on target to become the largest battery recycling scheme currently having 45,000 collection points but this is expected to rise up to 200,000 collection points all over the UK.