Battery solutions: battery recycling program

OHVTA PARTNERS WITH BATTERY SOLUTIONS TO PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH SAFE BATTERY DISPOSAL OPTIONS!

This program with Battery Solutions for OHVTA Members to collect and recycle vapor batteries.

• There is a $70.00 charge for the bucket.
• Includes a prepaid return label
• The battery bucket holds 35lbs of batteries.

If you would like to participate, please reach out to Jenny at Battery Solutions.

Jenny Adrian | Account Manager | Battery Solutions | jadrian@batterysolutions.com | (248) 446 - 5662 | www.batterysolutions.com

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Why Recycle Li-Ion?

1. Circular economy - with the respect to repair, reuse, recycle and recovery in mind.  All of these things equate to price stability and protects again price volatility. 
2. Cost -  of newly mined raw materials is up 400%!!!  Which, will ultimately affect your industry due to the metals in your batteries.
3. Safety – These batteries can be hazardous and have been known to explode and catch fire.  Properly recycling these batteries mitigates the risk and proves that you hold your stores in your industry to a higher standard.
4. Landfilling – There are multiple incidents where trash companies are pleading to consumers and businesses to keep li-ion batteries out of the trash  
   1. https://www.pressherald.com/2017/12/20/recycler-warns-of-lithium-ion-fire-risk/
   2. http://www.fox19.com/story/37905605/rumpke-throwing-away-batteries-creates-fire-risk

 

1. Supply Chain/Social Responsibility – Mining for raw Cobalt has become the new conflict mineral

Enabling a circular supply chain for batteries, we reduce the global need for mining of virgin material especially of conflict materials, like cobalt, found in lithium-ion batteries. We’ve recycled nearly 2 million pounds of these batteries year to date in 2017. This equates to up to 400,000 pounds of recovered cobalt that can be reused. It is a small part to ease the ever-rising demand for cobalt where, “thousands of miners in Congo dig by hand. Children, too,” according a recent The Washington Post article. These deplorable conditions urge us into full R&D mode in the product life extension for lithium-ion batteries, starting with laptop, power tool and cell phone batteries and working our way into electric vehicle battery reuse and re-purpose. 
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/?noredirect=on
 
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/05/02/cnn-freedom-project-electric-cars-cobalt-elbagir-pkg.cnn