Brockville Teams Up with Call2Recycle to Simplify Battery Recycling for Residents

Brockville, ON – The City of Brockville is pleased to announce that it is expanding its partnership with Call2Recycle, Canada’s leading battery collection and recycling organization, to launch a new phase in its waste management and sustainability strategy.

Smart battery drop-off containers from Call2Recycle’s Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program are now available at several convenient Brockville municipal sites, including City Hall, the Public Library, the Brockville Memorial Civic Centre, and Centennial Youth Arena, significantly enhancing the accessibility to battery recycling for Brockville residents.  Residents can drop off their used household batteries under 5 kg at any of these containers.

The first of their kind in North America, these next-generation smart containers drastically increase the safety of the battery collection process.  At the same time, their sensors monitor the battery drop-offs and automatically alert Call2Recycle to pick up the batteries once the containers are full, supporting the City’s waste diversion objectives while minimizing the associated carbon footprint.

The City of Brockville and Call2Recycle started collaborating in 2022 to set up regular collections of used batteries, helping the City collect over 2,300 kg of used batteries over the past three years. In 2024, the City increased its effort to encourage residents to dispose of their waste responsibly, following Recycle Your Batteries, Canada’s! guidelines to “Collect, Protect, Drop-off." at least every three months. Through its responsible management of hazardous waste in multiple municipal sites, Brockville sets an example as a safe and environmentally responsible community in Ontario.

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“Improving our waste reduction and recycling is essential to our effort to enhance Brockville’s environmental sustainability,” said Brockville Mayor Matt Wren. “We’re very pleased to see our collaboration with Call2Recycle bear such positive results. Our battery recycling efforts can help our residents to live in a sustainable and balanced manner”.

“Battery recycling is essential to help a community responsibly and safely manage its waste,” said Joseph Chung, Vice President of Account Management at Call2Recycle Canada. “Through this extension of our partnership with Brockville and many other municipalities across Canada to collect and recycle more and more batteries, we help protect the environment and recover their components to support Canada’s circular economy.”

Recycling batteries is a collective responsibility and an important part of Canada’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint by reusing waste materials. Call2Recycle operates in Ontario as the largest registered battery Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO), with almost 3,000 convenient Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! drop-off points in the province easily accessible to over 98% of Ontarians. Residents of Brockville and all Canadians interested in recycling their used batteries can locate their nearest battery drop-off points at recycleyourbatteries.ca.

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About Call2Recycle Canada, Inc. 

Call2Recycle® is Canada’s leading organization for battery collection and recycling, fulfilling product stewardship obligations on behalf of over 400 members, including producers of single-use and rechargeable batteries. Call2Recycle powers Recycle Your Batteries, Canada!, its household and e-bike battery collection and recycling program. The organization operates provincially-approved programs in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. It also functions as a registered Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) in Ontario, adhering to the Ontario Batteries Regulation. It offers collection and recycling services for household batteries (weighing up to 5 kg), as well as e-transport batteries used to power e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards, hoverboards, and Electric Vehicles (EVs). 

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Since its inception in 1997, Call2Recycle has diverted over 50 million kilograms of batteries from Canadian landfills. It upholds its commitment to operating the highest quality battery recycling program in Canada and holds certification in the most rigorous and globally respected standards, including R2v3, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 9001. This reputation for excellence has enabled Call2Recycle to maintain trusted, long-term relationships with stakeholders and establish a network of more than 12,000 participating collection locations across Canada, including at leading retailers and municipal facilities.