Batteries

The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has received $1.5 million to recover more materials from used lithium ion batteries. The goal...

Metal Conversion Technologies has reached a $25,000 settlement with the U.S. government and the state of Georgia over a series...

It has been six months since Call2Recycle launched the nation's first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries in Vermont,...

Vermont's law mandating that producers fund the takeback and recycling of single-use batteries has helped significantly boost battery collections in...

When Energizer developed a battery with 4 percent recycled content, company officials agonized over whether to market the achievement to...

Maine legislators are mulling a wide-ranging bill meant to help the state meet its 50 percent diversion goal. Legislative Document...

An artificially intelligent optical sortation device has started sorting some of the millions of pounds of batteries collected across the...

The North American product stewardship group Call2Recycle collected a program-best 12.6 million pounds of batteries in 2015, a 5 percent...

Can technology be used to better track flows of end-of-life electronics? Industry and government officials discussed that idea this week...

Telecommunications giant Comcast has agreed to pay the state of California a hefty sum for illegally disposing of e-scrap and...