Published: October 24, 2024
Updated: October 24, 2024
by Marissa Heffernan
E-Scrap News: A Resource Recycling, Inc. publication
Legislative action on batteries is speeding up, but some of those laws are missing their marks and creating a regulatory environment that is difficult to recycle in, panelists said at the recent E-Scrap Conference in Orlando.
Moderated by Leo Raudys, president and CEO of Call2Recycle, “Navigating the Surge: The Impact of New Legislation on Battery Recycling” included Jeff Farano, manager of compliance and governmental relations for SA Recycling; Rob Lawson-Shanks, CEO and co-founder of Molg; and Jeff Gloyd, founder of Gloyd Recycling Solutions. The session was part of the 2024 E-Scrap Conference, held Sept. 30-Oct. 2 by Resource Recycling, Inc.
Raudys noted that there’s “a wave of regulation hitting the states that’s driving a considerable amount of change and growth and investment in the battery recycling world.”
“We’re keenly interested in this because it’s going to dramatically increase the scope of what we do,” he said. Historically Call2Recycle has collected about 8 million pounds of batteries a year, he added, but he expects that number to grow to 40 million pounds within the next two years.
Regulation is sometimes written for a positive purpose, Gloyd said, but “oftentimes leaves out a very important conversation: how it impacts the collector and the processor of that material from a cost perspective, from a labor perspective and, most importantly, from a risk perspective.”
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