CES 2001

It’s Official: More Portable Rechargeable Batteries Can Now Be Recycled; RBRC Broadens Its Recycling Program

LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2001 – The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) announced today that its rechargeable battery recycling program — Charge Up to Recycle! — is expanding to recycle all portable rechargeable battery chemistries, effective this month.
 
The move comes after extensive research showed that many of RBRC Licensee companies, which include more than 300 manufacturers and marketers of portable rechargeable ...

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EPA Certifies Alternative Battery Recycling Label

Battery Group Hopes To Increase Consumer Recycling Of Used Ni-Cd Batteries

GAINESVILLE, August 21, 1998
– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) announced today the EPA’s certification of a label proposed by RBRC for Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cd) rechargeable batteries and product packaging. This is EPA’s first certification of a label proposed as an alternative to label language otherwise required by the 1996 Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act. That Act established ...

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