Press Releases

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 ...

MONTREAL, Oct. 19, 2021

Innovators of a cost efficient and sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling technology, Lithion Recycling, Inc., and Call2Recycle, a North American leader in battery collection and recycling, are pleased to announce a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on providing a turnkey full-service management solution for safe and efficient recycling of Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries.

The combination of Lithion’s patented and innovative hydrometallurgical battery recycling process and Call2Recycle’s existing North American collection, transportation and logistics network will make this ...