{"id":5160,"date":"2012-07-11T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2012-08-27T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:57:14","slug":"big-four-battery-companies-plan-nationwide-recycling-launch-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/big-four-battery-companies-plan-nationwide-recycling-launch-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Four Battery Companies Plan Nationwide Recycling Launch in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Environmental Leader.com<\/a><\/em>
\nDuracell, Energizer, Panasonic and Rayovac \u2013 the four largest battery brands in the US \u2013 are seeking a business partner to manage a proposed nationwide collection and recycling program for household batteries, scheduled to launch next year.<\/p>\n

Through their non-profit Corporation for Battery Recycling, the companies have issued a request for proposals<\/a> seeking a \u201cstewardship organization,\u201d which will be responsible for compliance with all laws and regulations, and must address technical or other challenges associated with recycling of household primary batteries.<\/p>\n

The companies founded CBR after seeing the results of a 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology life-cycle consumer battery analysis, which found that collection and recycling could be net environmentally positive. Since then, the companies have been working with MIT to create a voluntary recycling program where the use of recovered materials such as zinc, manganese and steel offsets the extraction impact of virgin materials.<\/p>\n

In January, CBR launched two \u2014 in Hennepin County, Minn., and Santa Clara County, Calif. \u2014 of its six scheduled \u201cfoundation programs<\/a>,\u201d which will gather data from existing battery collection programs to help CBR develop its nationwide recycling program. The four other foundation programs are in Onondaga County, NY; San Luis Obispo County, Calif., and King and Snohomish counties, Wash.<\/p>\n

The nation-wide program will focus on the collection of all consumer batteries and recycling of primary cylindrical and prismatic alkaline manganese, zinc carbon, and lithium batteries up to a maximum of 2 kg, and zinc air, silver oxide, alkaline manganese and lithium button\/coin cells.<\/p>\n

Preliminary research conducted by CBR indicated that consumers typically don\u2019t differentiate between primary batteries and others, so the proposals must include a solution for other batteries (for example, rechargeables and lithium thionyl chloride) that are likely to appear in collection channels.<\/p>\n

Proposals also need to include an education program and awareness campaign to show consumers that there is an easy, convenient way to recycle batteries.<\/p>\n

A core tenet of the program is to have a net environmentally positive system for all batteries, measured against a baseline of environmental impact of landfilling batteries under current assumptions. CBR says proposals must include recommendations for how to continuously improve the environmental impact of batteries, using four metrics: reducing human health impacts, ecosystem quality, global warming potential and resource depletion including energy demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Environmental Leader.com Duracell, Energizer, Panasonic and Rayovac \u2013 the four largest battery brands in the US \u2013 are seeking a business partner to manage a proposed nationwide collection and recycling program for household batteries, scheduled to launch next year. Through their non-profit Corporation for Battery Recycling, the companies have issued a request for proposals … Continue reading Big Four Battery Companies Plan Nationwide Recycling Launch in 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}