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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