Programs

Call2Recycle powers the Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program, which facilitates the collection and recycling of nearly 5 million kilograms of household batteries (under 5 kg) per year.

As Canada’s largest household battery recycling program, Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! is a turnkey solution helping battery producers meet their Extended Producer Responsibilities, municipalities safely manage hazardous waste disposal, and retailers support ongoing ESG goals and initiatives through a network of over 12,000 drop-off locations from coast to coast.

Household battery recycling regulations vary across provinces and territories, and Call2Recycle helps battery producers meet their Extended Producer Responsibilities wherever they operate, delivering a convenient turnkey solution.

In Quebec, 2022 regulations expanded to include certain battery-powered products with built-in batteries under 5 kg. To support compliance, Call2Recycle offers a turnkey collection and recycling solution through its Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program. 

The program ensures safe collection, transport, and recycling of eligible products, including items like electric toothbrushes, toys, smoke alarms, and flashlights, enabling battery recovery. 

It helps manufacturers, importers, and retailers meet EPR requirements, while supporting municipalities and partners in managing these products safely. For added convenience, the program also accepts similar products with removable batteries. 

Through its Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program, Call2Recycle offers turnkey recycling solutions for e-mobility batteries used in devices such as e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards, and hoverboards. 

In British Columbia, a separate program supports the collection and recycling of full e-bikes, including their batteries, providing a more comprehensive solution in that province. 

Together, these programs help e-mobility battery and device producers meet regulatory obligations, while also enabling retailers, municipalities, and other partners to safely manage lithium-ion battery disposal, supporting sustainability efforts and broader ESG initiatives. 

Call2Recycle’s turnkey electric vehicle (EV) battery services support the ongoing development of a circular economy for EV batteries, encouraging options for reuse, repurposing, and recycling of used EV batteries, and helping to power the sustainable transition to electric transportation.

Our EV battery program facilitates the collection of EV batteries for recycling or repurposing, helping auto manufacturers meet their waste-management obligations and relieving automotive dismantlers and other partners of unwanted EV batteries.

Call2Recycle, in partnership with vape producers, has launched the Recycle Your Vapes program to support the safe collection, management, and recycling of battery-powered vapes, e-cigarettes, and their components, including batteries. 

As the first program of its kind in Canada, it helps producers meet their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations in Quebec while offering adult consumers a convenient and responsible recycling option. The program also supports municipalities by ensuring the safe handling of vape waste in their communities.