'The majority of the material, when you do reset it, will have cleared.'
, WEEE Ireland CEO Leo Donovan said that while Ireland has traditionally embraced recycling, we are not meeting the EU recycling requirements.“We manage all household electrical waste, and that's virtually everything in your house that runs off a battery or an electric current.
“We're using more and more battery type products electric drills … vaping they have batteries in there and electric toothbrushes,” he said. “We’re able to extract out the battery and all the different component parts from your small electric toothbrush.
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