The Battery Industry Group
The creative folks at Chillbox 
have put together a fantastic video to explain how B.I.G. came about and what it aims to do. The video is sponsored by Vector and features footage from the launch of the New Energy Futures paper. Watch the video here and share it in your communications channels.
Transitioning away from fossil fuels to energy systems which use batteries can’t just be about reducing emissions during use but must take a holistic approach. This means reducing a battery’s environmental impact from the extraction of the materials which make it up, through to how it’s dealt with at the end of life.
To find the most sustainable solutions we must turn to the waste hierarchy.
Ever heard of a passport for a battery? The European Union this month announced regulations requiring large batteries to have one. And where Europe goes, very often, so does the rest of the world, including Aotearoa New Zealand.