Battery Recycling Group Announces Winners of Awards

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation announces the winners of its Community Recycling Leadership Awards.

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. announced the recipients of its fifth annual "Community Recycling Leadership Awards" with recipients selected from each region of the United States and Canada. One recipient is also awarded the "National Leadership Award." 

These awards recognize RBRC's community program participants for their outstanding efforts in rechargeable battery and cell phone recycling through the Call2Recycle(TM) program.

This year’s recipients are the following:

City of Phoenix Office of Environmental Programs.

The following groups were recognized on a regional level for their participation in the Call2Recycle program:

Lexington County Solid Waste Management, Lexington County, SC; Missouri State Recycling Program; The University of Minnesota Department of Environmental Health and Safety; National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Washington, D.C; The city of Hamilton, Canada; The regional municipality of Halton, Canada.

"The success of the RBRC program depends largely on our community partners spreading the word and making it easy for residents to recycle their rechargeable batteries," said Ralph Millard, Executive Vice President, RBRC.

"Since 1996, RBRC has collected more than 26 million pounds of rechargeable batteries in the U.S. and Canada -- in large part due to the efforts of our community programs making it easy to recycle rechargeable batteries."