YPO & The Environment
At YPO we recognise you increasingly need to demonstrate your responsibility to the environment and meet your environmental objectives. To help you achieve this, we are working hard to expand our range by including more and more sustainable alternatives and supplementing this with materials which are helping schools educate the next generation on how to reduce their impact on the environment.
Our Contract Services team can also offer a wide number of environmental contracts such as refuse weighing and lifting devices, kerbside boxes and kitchen caddies in addition to fuels, vehicles and office equipment which are kinder to the environment. We are also taking the lead in a number of energy initiatives at national and regional level.
From Fairtrade tea, coffee and sugar to low energy light bulbs, recycled exercise books and furniture from managed forests, and supported by a full suite of electronic trading routes, YPO is working hard to help you with your environmental objectives.
Our green product range is now available to customers who have registered for online services via our Browse and Order Online pages.
To find out more about our 'green' contracts please contact our Contract Services teams direct.
Information on Battery Recycling with YPO
YPO is now offering a free service to all customers purchasing batteries. YPO will take back and recycle used batteries, with the service offered free of charge for customers within the UK. By recycling your used batteries you are contributing to protecting our environment and the earth's natural resources.
Batteries are made from important resources and chemicals, including lead, cadmium, zinc, lithium and mercury. If batteries are disposed of as normal municipal household waste, they will be taken to a landfill site and those resources will be lost and will contribute to the pollution of the environment. Recycling is one way you can help the environment and you should dispose of used batteries separately from other waste, using the collection and recycling schemes available.
Your role in contributing to the recycling of waste batteries and in preventing pollution of the environment is essential. Each used battery that you place in a recycling box will be taken apart and many of the materials will be recovered and used to make new batteries or something else.
All batteries are labelled with the crossed-out wheeled bin below, to indicate that they should not be disposed of as normal waste, but in specific recycling centres.
Batteries containing hazardous substances such as mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd) or lead (Pb) are marked with their chemical symbol as well.
How UK Customers Can Recycle Batteries with YPO and batteryback.org
For customers local to YPO, please bring used batteries to either Reception or Customer Returns:
YPO, 41 Industrial Park, Wakefield, WF2 0XE
We appreciate that for most of our customers, this may not be possible, therefore please visit www.batteryback.org to identify a battery collection point near you that will accept your used batteries free of charge.
Batteryback is one of 6 approved battery recycling schemes, please see the list below for links to all 6 schemes. Click here to find your nearest battery collection point. You can also contact your local authority for information on a recycling facility in your area that will take back your used batteries.
Please do not return your used batteries to us via mail.
Approved battery recycling schemes in the UK
