Hudson Daybreak Rotary Club, in partnership with the Hudson Fire Department, will again be collecting and recycling lithium-ion batteries and rechargeable devices that you’ve been holding onto in your junk drawers! Join us on April 12 at the Hudson Fire Department, 2121 Ward Ave. This event is free to the public.
Bring your lithium-ion batteries and unused rechargeable devices including smartphones, tablets, electric toothbrushes, laptops, power tool batteries, rechargeable vacuum batteries, wireless headphones, and any other lithium-ion battery for recycling. Storing these materials could pose a long-term fire hazard and should not be tossed into garbage containers or landfills.
Smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles are all powered by lithium-ion batteries, and we can recover more than 95% of the metals from old, end-of-life products and significantly decrease the US' reliance on newly mined materials and overseas supply chains. However, today, few pathways exist to get these old products recycled responsibly resulting in a national recycling rate of about 5%.
By partnering with Redwood Materials, Rotary seeks to collect as many of these old products as possible to sustainably recycle, refine, and remanufacture these batteries here in America.
Note that this event is specific to lithium-ion batteries. We cannot accept other e-waste such as power cords, flat-screen TVs, printers, copiers, or circuit boards.
Come recycle with us!