For scrap yards, car breakers, garages, ELV operators and fleet businesses, used lead acid batteries can represent a significant source of revenue. When collected and recycled efficiently, they help recover important materials for reuse in new products while generating commercial value from material that might otherwise go to waste.
However, batteries can quickly build up on site. When businesses are unsure of the best route for collection, recycling or sale, batteries are often left sitting in storage, taking up valuable space and creating avoidable operational challenges.
Clarity provides a simple solution. We offer a straightforward route for selling scrap lead acid batteries, with flexible collection and delivery-in options, prompt payment, clear documentation and support throughout the process. By making battery recycling simple and efficient, we help businesses keep material moving and realise value sooner.
Who we work with
Clarity works with a wide range of UK businesses that generate or collect used lead acid batteries, including:
- Scrap metal yards
- Car breakers and ELV operators
- Garages and vehicle repair centres
- Fleet operators
- Car dealerships
- ATFs, AATFs and other ABTOs
Whether you have smaller quantities or regular larger volumes, our team can help arrange the right route for your batteries.
Flexible collections and delivery-in options
Every supplier operates differently. Some businesses need regular collections, while others prefer to deliver batteries directly.
Clarity can support both. We arrange collections through a trusted network of carriers and can support larger loads where required. For suppliers delivering in, we work with multiple, conveniently located Approved Battery Treatment Operators (ABTOs). Our team supports efficient offloading, sorting and gate management to help keep the process moving smoothly.
This helps suppliers reduce on-site storage, keep material moving and manage battery volumes more easily.
Prompt payment and clear records
We understand that reliable payment terms are important for battery suppliers. Clarity offers prompt payment, with terms based on delivery-in dates, providing a transparent and predictable route to payment.
We also provide clear records for each order, so suppliers have visibility of their battery movements, pricing and documentation.
Compliance support for every order
Lead acid batteries are a regulated waste stream, so correct documentation is essential.
For every order, Clarity generates the required hazardous waste consignment documentation, helping ensure the safe and compliant movement of waste batteries. This creates a clear audit trail and reduces the need for manual paperwork.
Our online documentation service keeps the process simple, helping suppliers avoid delays caused by missing or incorrect information.
The Clarity supplier dashboard
To make battery trading easier to manage, Clarity provides access to a dedicated supplier dashboard.
The dashboard gives suppliers one place to access and manage:
- Full order details and agreed pricing
- Bespoke consignment note templates to simplify documentation and material movements
- Weighbridge tickets and detailed load analysis reports
- Completed consignment notes and supporting documentation
- Full photographic reports of every load
This helps reduce administrative effort, improves visibility and keeps important information in one place.
Battery identification support
If you are unsure whether a battery load is suitable, Clarity can help. Our team welcomes battery identification queries and can provide guidance before collection or delivery-in.
This is particularly useful for businesses handling mixed battery loads or batteries from vehicles, backup systems, machinery or industrial equipment.
Ensuring responsible compliance and recycling
Clarity is a long-standing Approved Battery Exporter (ABE) with extensive experience in the battery recycling sector. We work with approved treatment routes in the UK and Europe, including leading vehicle battery manufacturers and recycling partners.
Every load of scrap lead acid batteries that you supply through Clarity plays an important role in the recovery of valuable materials. Through established recycling and manufacturing supply chains, recovered materials can be processed and used in the production of new batteries and other products, helping conserve resources and support a more circular economy.
Speak to Clarity’s battery recycling experts
If you have scrap lead acid batteries to sell – typically full arctic-load quantities – Clarity can help you arrange a simple, compliant and reliable route.
Whether you are a scrap yard, breaker, garage, fleet operator or industrial site, our battery team can provide battery identification support and discuss your volumes, collection requirements and delivery-in options.
Our battery recycling specialists have more than 20 years’ experience working with suppliers, recyclers and overseas smelters. Combining technical expertise, market knowledge and established industry relationships, they help deliver compliant, efficient and commercially competitive routes for used lead acid batteries.
Elaine Murphy – Battery Trading Manager
Trent Nealgrove – Trading Administrator
