Where battery collections go

After the customer deposits the batteries
into one of our Battery Cans we send
them to one of two sites in Belgium
where the company REVATECH S.A.
recycles them. Revatech as a company
recovers and disposes of some
155,000 tonnes of dangerous and
non-dangerous industrial waste
annually, by mechanical, biological
and physico-chemical processes.

The Recycling Process

REVABAT® is a wet recycling
process for alkaline and
zinc-carbon batteries. This
process, developed by
REVATECH, is used to recycle
the magnetic (steel) and
non-magnetic (zinc and brass) metal fractions, recycle the different components of the "black mass" (zinc, carbon and manganese), and reprocess the plastics.

The overall recycling rate is at least 55% of the gross weight of the batteries treated, and is well within the norms contemplated by the European Commission.