Recycling is essential to keeping our environment clean and helping reduce the amount of waste we, as consumers, generate. Batteries are manufactured to meet customers' power and performance needs and can contain ingredients which may threaten the environment when batteries are improperly managed at the end of their usable life. 

Let's discuss three advantages of recycling your spent batteries:  

1: The Law 

  • Local, state, and federal laws governed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) require batteries to be recycled to prevent the release of hazardous materials into the environment. You could avoid potential legal issues and expensive fines by recycling your used batteries thru EPA-approved facilities. 

2: Prevents Harmful Materials from Entering the Air, Landfills, or the Ocean 

  • Improperly recycling batteries can negatively impact the environment. Batteries contain materials such as lead, calcium, lithium, etc., that can be hazardous. These materials can contaminate air, water, and soil. When batteries end up in landfills, they erode and break down, potentially resulting in chemicals leaking into the ground, affecting groundwater or possibly the ocean. Proper recycling will protect the environment and thus help ensure a safer future for us all.   

3: Recycling is Easy

  • Recycling programs, such as the MK Battery Spent Collection Program, take the risk and guesswork out of the battery disposal process. Disposing of batteries is as simple as arranging pick up from your facility or dropping off at a recycling center. Some programs may even reimburse you based on the size or weight of your batteries. Lead batteries are among the most recycled consumer products on the planet, with up to 99% of the materials used to produce new batteries. 

Proper spent battery disposal is everyone’s responsibility.  

If you are interested in recycling your spent batteries thru MK, please contact us by completing our Spent Battery Return Request form!