One Battery Can Spark A Fire: NSW EPA Expands Safety Campaign

One Battery Can Spark A Fire: NSW EPA Expands Safety Campaign

Here's your reminder to keep batteries out of bins. Yes, even those pesky AAAs.

Manufacturing sector joins call for NSW to activate battery regulation amid rising safety risks

Australia’s battery manufacturing and recycling sectors have urged the NSW Government to activate the Product Lifecycle Responsibility Regulation 2025 (Batteries) before the end of the year, with the Battery Stewardship Council warning that delays are increasing safety risks across homes, workplaces and waste facilities.

Batteries must not be binned, NSW EPA says in new campaign

‘Never bin a battery’ is the theme of a new NSW Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) campaign that will run across New South Wales until next June. The campaign’s goal is to educate people about properly handling and disposing of household batteries and products that have them embedded. It is being run by the NSW EPA in response to the growing threat of battery fires. NSW Fire and Rescue had to respond to more than 280 incidents caused by lithi…