Streamlight shines at battery recycling

United States – Streamlight, a leading provider of high-performance flashlights, and several of its US distribution partners combined to recycle more than 3200 pounds of rechargeable batteries during the third quarter, the company claims. And in the first three quarters of 2011 as a whole, the company recycled approximately 12 500 pounds of rechargeable flashlight batteries.

Ray Sharrah, Streamlight’s President and Chief Executive Officer, has revealed that, in the third quarter, the company’s participating US dealers recycled approximately 400 pounds of nickel-cadmium, lithium-ion, nickel metal hydride and small sealed lead-acid batteries in partnership with Call2Recycle – the only free rechargeable battery collection programme in North America.

Streamlight’s corporate headquarters in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, also recycled around 2800 pounds of small sealed lead-acid batteries during the same period.