Singapore, March 30 -- We refer to Mr Bachan Singh's letter (Used electric car batteries may pose problems few years from now, March 26).
By July next year, a regulated e-waste management system, based on the Extended Producer Responsibility approach, will be implemented in Singapore. Under this system, companies importing or manufacturing hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as companies supplying electric vehicle batteries in Singapore, will be responsible for the collection and recycling of end-of-life batteries of hybrid and electric vehicles.
In preparation for this, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has been working with the local recycling industry to build up our local capabilities to recycle such batteries. E-waste recycle...