Call2Recycle strengthens partnership with Brockville, Ontario

Toronto-based battery collection and recycling organization Call2Recycle Canada recently expanded its partnership with the city of Brockville, Ontario, to deploy its smart battery drop-off containers from its “Recycle Your Batteries, Canada!” program at several municipal sites.

Containers have been placed at locations such as Brockville’s city hall and public library, the Brockville Memorial Civic Centre and Centennial Youth Arena, improving accessibility to battery recycling. Residents can drop off their used household batteries under 5 kilograms at any of the containers.

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Call2Recycle says the smart containers increase the safety of the battery collection process. At the same time, their sensors monitor the drop-offs and automatically alert the organization to pick up the batteries once the containers are full, supporting the city’s material diversion goals while minimizing the associated carbon footprint.

Brockville and Call2Recycle began working together in 2022 to set up regular collections of used batteries, and have collected more than 2,300 kg of used batteries over the past three years. This year, the city increased its effort to encourage residents to dispose of their batteries properly, following the ‘Recycle Your Batteries, Canada!’ guidelines to collect, protect and drop-off batteries at least every three months.

“Improving our waste reduction and recycling is essential to our effort to enhance Brockville’s environmental sustainability,” Mayor Matt Wren says. “We’re very pleased to see our collaboration with Call2Recycle bear such positive results. Our battery recycling efforts can help our residents to live in a sustainable and balanced manner.”

Call2Recycle operates in Ontario as the largest registered producer responsibility organization (PRO), with almost 3,000 battery drop-off points in the province that are easily accessible to more than 98 percent of Ontarians.

“Battery recycling is essential to help a community responsibly and safely manage its waste,” says Joseph Chung, vice president of account management at Call2Recycle Canada. “Through this extension of our partnership with Brockville and many other municipalities across Canada to collect and recycle more and more batteries, we help protect the environment and recover their components to support Canada’s circular economy.”