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Battery Recycling Locations!

 

 

 

 

 

During Earth Week (16 April – 22 April) Quinte Waste Solutions held a Battery Drive at the Quinte Mall and together with the help of the community, diverted 2337 lbs of used batteries from our local landfills!

More importantly, we are pleased to announce that the following locations have signed on to become permanent Household Battery Recycling drop-off locations, helping to make battery recycling more convenient for our community.

 

Home Hardware

Every store in Centre and South Hastings and Prince Edward County

Belleville – 481 Bridge St. E. and 445 Dundas St. E.

Frankford – 7 Trent St. N.

Marmora – Hwy 7 west                               

Madoc Village – 57 Elgin St. 

Picton – 13544 Loyalist Pkwy and 117 Main St. W.

Stirling-Rawdon – 9 Tuftsville Rd.         

Trenton – 1983 Old Hwy 2

Tweed – 310 Victoria St.

Wellington – 289 Wellington Main St.

 

Belleville 

Belleville Public Library Cafe – 254 Pinnacle St.

Household Hazardous & Electronic Waste Depot – 75 Wallbridge Cres.

The Source store in the Quinte Mall,

 

Quinte West

Quinte Waste Solutions – 270 West St.

 

Tweed

Tweed Municipal Office – 255 Metcalf St

 

The Chairman of the Centre & South Hastings Waste Service Board, Councillor Terry Cassidy of the City of Quinte West would like to thank all the public facing organizations that came forward to help make recycling household batteries more convenient. This initiative, combined with the responsible participation of residents in the area will go a long way to reduce the amount of batteries finding their way into our local landfill sites.

In 2010, 745 million household batteries were discarded by Canadians in their household trash. Less than 5 % of all household batteries are properly recycled because of the lack of convenient drop off locations.

Any public facing organization wishing to be a part of the solution at no cost, is encouraged to contact Raw Materials Company, an Ontario based Independent Stewardship Organization responsible for recycling Ontario’s batteries. Call 1(888) We-Reduce or visit www.rawmaterials.com for more information.

For all your other hazardous and electronic waste needs, please participate in the Quinte Waste Solutions Household Hazardous & Electronic Waste events running year round at the Belleville depot at 75 Wallbridge Crescent or visit www.quinterecycling.org for a drop off  event location near you.

 

 

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