Alkaline and zinc carbon batteries collected Australia-wide, recycled in Melbourne
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That means 90% of the batteries in our phones, torches, power tools, remote controls, and toys end up in landfills where they negatively impact the environment as mercury, cadmium, lead, and nickel reaches people, plants, animals, and waterways. Li-ion batteries have also been known to spark fires in landfills, filling the air with toxic smoke.
To add complexity, traditional battery recycling has its own problems.
Most battery recyclers in Australia rely on smelting that consumes tremendous amounts of resources and, due to their low-tech operations, only 40% of materials are recovered for future use.
Instead, ReSource has invested in the facilities and technology to safely and effectively recycle alkaline and zinc carbon batteries, turning them into nutrient-rich fertiliser. We recover 80% of materials for reuse.
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We collect from your site, anywhere in Australia.
We’ll turn alkaline and zinc carbon batteries into nutrient-rich fertiliser.
Until recently, councils and businesses had two options and no easy way to tell them apart. Send your batteries to a recycler who smelts them, and very little material comes back. Or send them to one who says they recycle, and take their word for it. Once the truck leaves your site, what happens next is invisible unless you go and audit it.
Fortunately, there is another option: ReSource. By not using smelting methods, we use 1/25th the energy of traditional recyclers.
Home to the southern hemisphere's first AI-powered X-ray sorter for mixed batteries, enabling maximum material recovery, ReSource makes it simple and safe to dispose of your batteries as a B-Cycle Accredited vendor.
ReSource recycles alkaline and zinc carbon batteries in our own Melbourne facility, without smelting. We chose to focus on alkaline and zinc carbon batteries because they comprise the vast majority of single-use batteries. We produce a clean, dry, perfectly sized micronutrient fertiliser supplement from these batteries.
We recover over 80% of the battery vs. less than 40% with smelting.
We are an Australian first, utilising X-ray and AI technology to detect and sort different batteries. These sorting capabilities allow us to take batteries, a waste product, and separate them with more than 99.8% purity to produce multiple fertiliser outputs.
We use around 1/25th of the energy compared to smelting, which is otherwise the only “recycling” pathway for these batteries. Our facility is built to process the equivalent of more than 185,000,000 batteries a year.
