US electronics recycler ERI has launched its first alkaline battery recycling plant. The plant is located within the company’s e-scrap recycling and IT asset disposal facility in Plainfield, Indiana. ERI plans additional alkaline battery recycling plants across the US in 2025 and beyond.
‘We are proud and excited to take this latest significant step in the evolution of ERI and the services we provide our customers and the public at large, says ERI’s ceo John Shegerian. ‘Our innovative alkaline battery recycling process produces zero waste products, is circular economy focused and yields clean commodity outputs – creating a truly circular ecosystem.’
According to Shegerian, the focus on batteries is ‘a natural progression for us to be able to offer a complementary service to ERI’s existing suite of e-waste, end of life and asset management services.’
Do the right thing
He adds that it’s rewarding to be help people and businesses do the right thing by recycling their alkaline batteries and ‘keeping toxins out of landfills’. To date only half of the 52 US States have adopted laws sufficient to ban electronic waste (including batteries) from landfill.
From California to New York
ERI’s new plant can process every type of alkaline battery. ERI arranges logistics and accepts batteries at all of its eight locations in Arizona, California, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
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