Exide Technologies will shut down its New Zealand battery recycling plant in Lower Hutt by March 2013.

According to MSN.com, Hutt City mayor Ray Wallace said: “It will mean 40 people in our community will lose their jobs but also the bigger concern brings up the issues over whether these batteries will be recycled. The biggest concern now is what will happen to all those batteries. The moral dilemma is whether these are going to be shipped off somewhere and dumped in someone else’s backyard.”

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The company’s decision is a result of its failure to overturn the Ministry of Economic Development’s decision to permit exports of used batteries for recycling in developing nations.

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