Batteries Plus & Inexperienced Bay Packers Companion To Launch Battery Recycling Initiative

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By leveraging the eye of Cheeseheads in every single place, a partnership between the Inexperienced Bay Packers and Batteries Plus could provide an enormous enhance for the launch of a brand new battery recycling initiative backed by $7 million in DOE funding.

The Inexperienced Bay Packers, with the winningest file in NFL historical past, has a loyal fanbase and an enormous stadium, the well-known Lambeau Subject, so it’s form of a no brainer for an additional Inexperienced Bay group to parter with the staff, because the potential attain of that partnership is lengthy.

Batteries Plus opened its first retailer in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin, in 1988, and now has 800+ areas promoting batteries, lighting and good dwelling merchandise, and fixit companies. Battery recycling goes hand in hand with that focus, and the corporate now processes greater than 50 million kilos of batteries yearly, together with 1+ million kilos of lithium batteries. Due to the $7 million DOE grant, the corporate will now be putting in moveable client battery recycling drop-offs at its Wisconsin areas, and also will present a presence at Lambeau Subject on choose sport days with an interactive sales space showcasing battery recycling and educating individuals about correctly recycle batteries.

“This grant is a pivotal step in our mission to make battery recycling accessible and mainstream. By eliminating recycling charges at our shops and creating superior recycling workstations, we’re eradicating obstacles and making it simpler for customers to do their half in preserving each our pure assets and the power of our home provide chain. We’re excited to associate with the Division of Power and the Inexperienced Bay Packers to deliver this essential message to a wider viewers.” — Scott Williams, CEO of Batteries Plus

With wide-scale electrification occurring throughout a variety of industries and actions, and batteries taking part in a big position in that, recycling these batteries is a large piece of the sustainability puzzle, and companies like Batteries Plus and its recycling associate may also help cleared the path by way of client schooling and consciousness campaigns. With the Packers onboard as a associate, that provides different incentives, corresponding to drawing extra college students to take part in recycling contests launched at native faculties, by which the successful class shall be awarded “an unique Lambeau Subject expertise.”

Battery recycling isn’t very thrilling, for essentially the most half, however an efficient and environment friendly nationwide battery recycling infrastructure actually could possibly be a key factor in reaching true power independence, as famous by the US Power Secretary on the press convention saying the partnership.

“This can be a enormous step in American power independence and constructing a full American provide chain. We must be extracting the essential supplies in these batteries in a accountable approach by recycling the supplies we have already got in our system. Partnering with Batteries Plus and a terrific soccer staff just like the Packers will create this cycle.” — Secretary Jennifer Granholm

In associated information, in the event you’re interested in having a clear tech enterprise of your personal, Batteries Plus has a franchise mannequin, and the corporate lately introduced that it’s providing “an incentive package deal value greater than $107,000 to new franchisees who decide to opening a minimum of one retailer earlier than the tip of 2024.”