Product Stewardship In Action: Batteries 2016 Texas Recycling Summit
2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 2 IN THIS PRESENTATION Consumer Batteries and their relevancy in your HHW and community recycling programs: why should you care? Battery Collection & Recycling Trends: How does Texas stack-up? Challenges & Opportunities: what issues are we facing? How can you get involved?
2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 3 CALL2RECYCLE- WHO ARE WE? Not-for-profit, public service organization committed to the safe collection, transportation and recycling of consumer batteries across the U.S. and Canada. Founded in 1994 to deal with emerging state and federal regulation; the first consumer battery product stewardship program in North America. Voluntary stewardship program approved by governments in North America (New York / British Columbia / Quebec / Manitoba / Vermont) as a battery compliance scheme. Collection and recycling program offered at NO COST to consumers; 100% funded by manufacturers. First battery recycling program to obtain Responsible Recycling (R2 2013) certification and E Stewards recognition by the Basel Action Network (BAN). Over 115 million pounds of batteries since 1996 from 30,000 publicly-accessible sites (87% of U.S. residents live within 10 miles of a Call2Recycle drop off site)
2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 4 HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS: WHAT WE COLLECT Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd) Nickel Zinc (Ni-Zn) Small Sealed Lead Acid (SSLA/Pb) Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) Alkaline/Lithium Primary (for a fee) Cellphones
2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 5 PROGRAM COLLECTION SUMMARY (5-YEAR) 8,000,000 7,000,000 6,000,000 Call2Recycle Program Collection Summary (by chemistry) Pounds 5,000,000 4,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000-2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Ni-Cd Li-Ion Ni-MH SSLA/Pb Primary
2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 6 TEXAS BATTERY RECYCLING STATS YTD, over 523,000 lbs. of batteries recycled through September 2016 Over 1,500 battery collection sites (retail, local government) 86% of Texans live within 10 miles of a publicly accessible battery dropoff site. Texas ranks 24 th compared to the rest of the US. Metropolitan areas are well served, from a retail standpoint, but many rural counties don t have a public facing drop-off (8% of population, ~ 160 counties) Texas battery collection network the ate facility 0.01 pounds of rechargeable batteries are recycled per Texan via public drop-off sites; 25 th ranked state. No current legislation, but expect all battery legislation introduced in 2017
TEXAS BATTERY RECYCLING STATS 2014 2015 2016 Municipal Waste 8% 5% 6% Retailers 49% 44% 45% Businesses 33% 42% 38% Public Agencies 11% 9% 10% Call2Recycle has four customer groups-ratio of collections fluctuate Consumer battery recycling being driven largely through retail collections Municipal programs collecting batteries and partnering with Call2Recycle is somewhat limited to medium and a few large cities (Austin, Dallas, Ft. Worth); typically HHW programs versus recycling centers, at home collection/pickup, or curbside Opportunities for growth with other large muni HHW, smaller municipal recycling programs, KTB, CTRA and with COGs 2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 7
CHALLENGES Embedded batteries: Growing list of products (i.e. tablets, cellphones, cordless toothbrush) impacting available to collect; some are managed through other stewardship programs, but generally getting lost in tracking performance. Voluntary recycling efforts: not financially viable in the long-term. Legislative requirements and regulations are needed to sustain product stewardship programs. Escalating costs: transport increases, lower value, lighter weight lithium ion batteries dominating the market, North American processor limitations for rechargeable batteries and underdeveloped markets for single use batteries Regulatory factors: permits, shipping requirements can impede program advancement If we build it, will they come: Consumer education must leverage partners retailers, HHW programs and others in order to make a dent on public awareness and motivation A battery is a battery is a battery: most consumers don t decipher between rechargeable and primary, resulting in an increase in single-use battery collections (most of which are unfunded) 2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 8
2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 9 OPPORTUNITIES Consumer education and awareness imperative to advance Texas battery collection and recycling efforts Accessibility is good (86%) but could be much greater. Many rural areas have no collection infrastructure (retail or local government drop off sites) Curbside Recycling of batteries is an option to consider to expand convenience and significantly grow collections ( more convenient for the resident and greatest recovery opportunity) Call2Recycle has customized programs small or large quantities for collecting and recycling your consumer batteries recycling (rechargeable AND single use) ask me about our GreenVantage programs!
Education Tools/Outreach 2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 10
THANK YOU Tim Warren Regional Account Manager twarren@call2recycle.org 678-218-4579 (office) 636-579-9870 (mobile) www.call2recycle.org 2015 Call2Recycle, Inc. Page 11