Residents of Vermont can now recycle all household batteries by dropping them at convenient collection sites
MONTPELIER, VT – Call2Recycle, Inc., (Call2Recycle), North America’s largest consumer battery stewardship organization, and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources announced the official launch of the statewide program for the responsible recycling of single-use (primary) batteries. The announcement was made this morning at the Vermont State House.
Effective January 1, 2016, Vermont’s first-in-the-nation legislation requires single-use battery manufacturers to participate in a program that manages the ...
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Vermonters can now recycle all used household batteries for free! To help raise awareness of this exciting new program and divert used batteries from the waste stream, Call2Recycle® launched a School “Battery Recycling Challenge” to teach students about the importance of battery recycling by encouraging them to collect and recycle used batteries.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, lies roughly 1,500 miles (2,414 km) north of Austin, Texas. But residents of both communities shared a common goal this fall–to recycle their used batteries and cellphones as part of a friendly community competition among their local library branches. Thanks to the enthusiastic response of library patrons, an astonishing 10,200 lbs. (4,627 kg) of batteries were collected for recycling.