Australian Battery Recycling Initiative
ABRI's vision is simple: effective stewardship of all end of life batteries

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Pilot program for recycling alkaline batteries concludes

Posted on: April 5th, 2012

AusZinc (also trading as AusBatt) today announced that their pilot collection, sorting and recycling program for used alkaline batteries in More…

Grant awarded to Hydromet

Posted on: April 3rd, 2012

Hydromet Operations (Southern) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hydromet Corporation Ltd, is one of 13 successful grant recipients to More…

Battery recycling for the NBN

Posted on: February 6th, 2012

ABRI has called on the Australian Government to ensure that all backup batteries provided to customers on the National Broadband More…

Hydromet to enter the e-waste recycling field

Posted on: January 19th, 2012

ABRI member Hydromet is preparing to acquire a major interest in PGM Refiners Pty Ltd (PGM), a leading electronic waste More…

ARA battery recycling facility changes hands

Posted on: January 17th, 2012

In November 2011 Nyrstar NV and Sims Metal Management Limited (SimsMM) announced that they had reached a conditional agreement to More…

Research on lead acid battery use, disposal and recycling in Australia

Posted on: November 11th, 2011

Planet Ark has released new research on the lead acid battery recycling behaviour of Australians.  The research involved a survey of 1000 More…

New partnership announced for e-waste recycling

Posted on: November 11th, 2011

The rollout of  the National Television and Computer Product Stewardship Scheme, a co-regulated scheme under the Product Stewardship Act 2011, has received a More…

Electric vehicle battery forum, Shanghai 7-10 November

Posted on: October 17th, 2011

The next EV Battery Forum, to be held in Shanghai in November, will include presentations from 20 vehicle companies including Tesla, More…

ABRI speaking at Waste & Recycling Expo, 10 November 2011

Posted on: October 17th, 2011

Helen Lewis from ABRI will be one of the speakers at the Product Stewardship & Innovation in Resource Recovery forum More…

Responsible recycling of used lead acid batteries

Posted on: September 15th, 2011

Implementing some basic requirements for the management of used lead acid batteries (ULAB) will help companies to: – manage their business More…