RecycleNation Teams with Call2Recycle to Further Expand and Enhance Nation’s #1 Recycling Search Tool and Database
10 September 2024 - 6:09PM
Business Wire
RecycleNation.com, the #1 ranked recycling tool on the internet
(according to the latest rankings by FeedSpot) has teamed with
Call2Recycle, the country’s first and largest consumer battery
stewardship and recycling program, to further expand and enhance
the RecycleNation database to now include hundreds of additional
battery recycling locations nationwide.
The collaboration makes Call2Recycle’s thousands of locations
for battery recycling available via RecycleNation’s searchable
database. More than 5000 existing locations have been updated and
more than 3000 new locations have been added. Products such as
e-bike batteries and high energy batteries have also been added as
searchable items.
News of the collaborative effort to expand the RecycleNation
database to include Call2Recycle’s robust directory of safe and
responsible battery recycling locations comes on the heels of
RecycleNation’s recent site refresh, providing a straightforward
and intuitive layout, designed to make the recycling process fast
and easy.
RecycleNation is a free online search engine tool and
informational site designed to help anyone, anywhere in the United
States find the nearest location to responsibly recycle anything,
the #1 recycling tool on the internet is powered by ERI, the
nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset
disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction
company. RecycleNation was created to help people find a close
location to responsibly recycle any items they no longer want and
help Americans declutter.
“Our mission with RecycleNation is to democratize, simplify and
encourage the recycling process by providing a free, interactive,
easy-to-use tool that empowers users to type in their zip codes and
the items they want to recycle, so that nearby recycling
opportunities can be discovered,” said John Shegerian, Co-Founder,
Chairman and CEO of ERI and cofounder of RecycleNation. “By
partnering with our longtime friends and colleagues at
Call2Recycle, we are collaboratively offering consumers a
one-stop-shop for finding convenient, nearby places to recycle used
and unwanted batteries. It’s rewarding to be able to offer
enhancements to a tool that promotes across-the-board environmental
sustainability and circular economy initiatives. RecycleNation is
the ultimate system to bring recyclers and consumers together and
recycle anything and everything responsibly!”
"New battery recycling requirements will impact tens of millions
of Americans in the coming years, making it essential to provide
consumers with easily accessible, up-to-date information,” said Leo
Raudys, President & CEO, Call2Recycle. “Call2Recycle is
thrilled to partner with ERI to promote participating battery
collection sites. This partnership will expand the number of
battery drop-off locations and provide information that makes
recycling easier and more convenient across the U.S."
RecycleNation houses the world’s largest recycling database,
with more than 100,000 unique data points for over 50 different
items, all offered to the public free of charge. The site has now
helped more than 10 million customers find locations to recycle
various types of items, helping make the planet a greener, more
sustainable place. Today, RecycleNation helps over five million
unique visitors per year with their specific recycling needs.
Learn more at recyclenation.com.
About Call2Recycle, Inc.
Operating with a commitment to safety and environmental
excellence, Call2Recycle is the country’s premier battery
collection, logistics and recycling program. Founded in 1994, the
not-for-profit organization has safely and responsibly collected
and recycled over 140 million pounds of batteries across the U.S.
For more information about Call2Recycle, visit
call2recycle.org.
About ERI
ERI is the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset
disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction
company in the United States. ERI is certified at the highest level
by all leading environmental and data security oversight
organizations to de-manufacture, recycle, and refurbish every type
of electronic device in an environmentally responsible manner. It
is the first and only company in its industry to achieve carbon
neutrality at all its facilities nationwide, and the first to
achieve SOC 2 Type I and II certifications for security and data
protection. ERI has the capacity to process more than a billion
pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified
locations, serving every zip code in the United States. ERI’s
mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy. For more
information about e-waste recycling and ERI, call 1-800-ERI-DIRECT
or visit https://eridirect.com.
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