Battery return & recycling program
kinect + envirostream
| Introducing Kinect + envirostream’s onshore lithium battery return & recycling program. Kinect’s XLOCK locks are powered by high quality ultra long lasting lithium batteries, enabling maximum simplicity and flexibility for locker management systems. Kinect has partnered with envirostream to implement a safe and environmentally sustainable program to ensure that the single use batteries supplied do not go to landfill at the end of their life. Active components of the batteries are processed and returned to the manufacturing sector at envirostream’s ISO 9001 facility in Victoria. XLOCK HOME |  |
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| Safe Battery TransportUsed batteries are placed inside envirostream’s specially designed fire resistant liners and recycled fibreboard transport cartons. These are then transported to envirostream’s facility in Victoria in accordance with the Dangerous Goods (Transport by Road or Rail) regulations 2018 |
Envirostream's process
Envirostream uses innovation to create new processing methods for all types of spent batteries, including those that power the numerous portable devices so ubiquitous today. Its Australian-owned battery recycling facility in Victoria – which is fully enclosed and based on international best practice – was designed and built by the team at Envirostream.
The first of its kind in Australia, Envirostream’s facility is equipped to recover the maximum amount of resources (~95%) from all types of spent batteries. Those resources are then returned to the manufacturing sector, with the active components of end-of-life Li-ion batteries – cobalt, nickel, lithium and graphite – subsequently used as raw materials in the production of new Li-ion batteries. They aim for a truly circular, and therefore sustainable, battery economy.
As a proud member of the Australian Battery Recycling Initiative, Envirostream offers cost-effective, customised methods of battery collection, transport, sorting and processing, meaning there’s no longer any excuse for spent batteries to leave Australia or be consigned to landfill.
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