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Recycle Your Batteries, Canada!

Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! is a battery recycling program run by Call2Recycle Canada, Inc.

Call2Recycle Canada, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1997 to protect and preserve the environment by collecting and recycling consumer batteries across the country.

For more information, visit Call2Recycle.ca

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How does it work?

The Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program is funded by battery manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers – who are obligated by provincial recycling regulations to ensure the batteries they produce and/or sell are responsibly recycled when they reach their end of life.

Obligated producers remit Environmental Handling Fees (EHF) that are used to fund the program. EHFs are fees per unit sold that represent the cost of recycling at end of life.

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Results

Since inception, the program has recycled over 40 million kilograms of batteries, keeping them out of local landfills and recovering the valuable materials that can be used to create new batteries and other products. The Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program meets the highest standards of responsible recycling.

That’s hazardous waste we’re keeping out of local landfills and recovering the valuable materials that can be used to create new batteries and other products.

Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! meets the highest standards of responsible recycling.

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Become a collection partner

The collection program is available to qualifying businesses and public agencies, including retail locations, manufacturers, property managers, waste management facilities, and local government.

If you are an individual interested in recycling batteries, please drop them off at one of our drop-off locations near you.

If you represent a business or public agency and would like to learn more about becoming a collection partner, please click the button below and fill out the form for more information.

Registered collection partners will receive specially designed battery collection containers, storage instructions, safe handling and point-of-sale materials to use when communicating with customers.