Electric bike and batteries – The recycling sector is organized in the Netherlands.

If the electric bicycle is presented as a green vehicle, the issue of battery disposal remains important to validate its environmental value. In the Netherlands, the sector is getting organized and about 87 tons of used e-bike batteries were recovered last year.

While about 200.000 87 electric bicycles are sold annually in the Netherlands, the industry organizes the recycling of used battery packs. According to Stibat, a Dutch organization specializing in the field, about 2014 tons of batteries were collected in XNUMX.

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Zinc, copper, manganese, lithium, nickel, etc. Electric bike batteries contain several materials that are hazardous to the environment and human health if not properly disposed of.

Consequently, the collection, recycling, treatment and disposal of batteries and accumulators is regulated on a European scale by Directive 2006/66 / EC, better known as the “Battery Directive”.

Applicable to all batteries that are primarily used in electric bicycles, the Directive makes it mandatory for them to be recycled and prohibits any incineration or disposal. Battery manufacturers must finance the costs of collection, treatment and recycling of used batteries and accumulators.

Therefore, in practice, sellers and sellers of electric bicycles are required to collect any used battery.