A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for a battery treatment operator approved under regulation 59.
The UK Waste Batteries Regulations define an approved battery treatment operator by approval under regulation 59. The term is useful when separating the actor that treats waste batteries from the scheme, producer, exporter, and evidence-note layers that may appear around the same compliance workflow.
This is a UK source-specific operator term from the Waste Batteries Regulations. It is not a generic recycler label; keep it separate from EU recycler, Brazil recycler, India recycler, and general waste-management terminology unless a specific source comparison is being made.
The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
a battery treatment operator who has been approved under regulation 59.
Direct UK regulation definition from the interpretation provision for waste-battery producer responsibility and collection/recycling obligations.
Reference: Regulation 2(1)
UK Waste Batteries Regulations definition; use as a source-specific UK waste-battery operator or registration term rather than a general EPR actor definition.
UK context: UK Waste Batteries Regulations defines this term in UKSI 2009/890. This is useful UK-side context, not an EU Battery Regulation definition.
In implementation, approved battery treatment operator records should connect treatment activity, approval status, accepted waste-battery streams, evidence notes, and downstream recycling or recovery claims. The treatment operator may support recycling evidence, but the approval label alone should not be recorded as a record of the material-recovery event.
For Minespider, this term helps separate actor approval from material-recovery evidence. A treatment operator may be central to the downstream battery pathway, but the system still needs to distinguish approval, receipt, treatment, evidence-note issuance, export, and actual recycling outcomes.