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Nearly 8 Million Pounds of Batteries Collected; Data Shows Milestone Year for Lithium-Ion Battery Collection

ATLANTA, Ga. — Call2Recycle^®, the nation’s largest consumer battery stewardship and collection program, is pleased to announce its annual battery collections data. In 2022, nearly 8 million pounds of batteries were collected for recycling in the U.S., including over 3 million pounds of lithium-ion batteries, the highest number of lithium-ion batteries collected in the program’s history.

Call2Recycle, Inc. is a U.S.-based non-profit that works to ...

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ATLANTA – June 23, 2022 – Today, Call2Recycle, Inc., the country’s first consumer battery collection and recycling program, in collaboration with PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization and the bicycle industry’s trade association, announced the publication of two e-bike battery safety guides. 

According to the market research firm, NPD Group, e-bike sales grew 145 percent from 2019 to 2020, more than double the rate of classic bikes. In response ...

ATLANTA, GA – April 26, 2022
Call2Recycle®, the country’s first and largest consumer battery stewardship and recycling program, today announced a partnership with Li Industries to augment its battery sorting and recycling using Li Industries’ innovative technology. The partnership will initially focus on commercializing Li Industries unique battery sorting technology, which will allow end-of-life batteries to be more efficiently and accurately sorted by battery chemistry.

Li Industries sorting technology automates most of the major tasks of identifying battery chemistries ...

New innovative battery collection solution from Call2Recycle and partners ERI and CellBlock FCS streamlines time, space, and labor

ATLANTA – April 22, 2022 – Call2Recycle, Inc., the country’s first and largest consumer battery stewardship and recycling program leader, is proud to announce the official launch of OneDrum™, the first mixed consumer battery collection product in the market. Teaming up with CellBlock FCS and Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), Call2Recycle’s OneDrum solution allows customers to place and ...

Despite pandemic, rechargeable battery recycling continues to strengthen 

ATLANTA — Call2Recycle, the nation’s largest battery stewardship and collection, logistics, and recycling program, today unveiled its annual battery collections data, with more than 8.1 million pounds of consumer batteries collected for recycling in the U.S. throughout 2021. 

Despite continued challenges from COVID-19, total 2021 battery collections were just 3.2% lower than in 2020, attributable to a drop in single-use (primary) batteries. Significant growth in consumer drop-offs and lithium-ion collections ...