Despite a survey being carried out in 2011 that claimed it could pose a risk to human health, Havering Council claims it needs another six months to assess the air quality around a constantly burning landfill site.
Around 9m tonnes of lithium batteries become essentially unusable every year and are incinerated or sent to landfill. Nottingham Trent University’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) have been awarded a £582,000 grant as part of a Europe-wide effort to mitigate this waste.