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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 10 October 2008
 
Give us bins for batteries

• IT is difficult to dispose of energy-saving lamps containing mercury, and non-recyclable batteries containing noxious metals. They are not collected on a borough-wide basis while cans, bottles and paper have bins the length and breadth of Islington.
Islington’s 180,000 people use a lot of batteries containing noxious metals and the council gives away mercuric energy-saving lamps that will pollute landfill for hundreds of years.
A network needs to be rolled out for collection of mercuric lamps and noxious batteries. There will be an upsurge in batteries dumping this winter with the new popularity of cycling. Where is the campaign to fit dynamos to bicycles so people can generate their own electricity instead of using battery lamps? 
LEO CHAPMAN
Dufferin Street, EC1


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