With millions of batteries currently going into landfills, or being eliminated through incineration, there is a real need for a more effective, less environmentally harmful method of recycling dry cell batteries. The DCBR-50K system from Marlie Inc. has an extremely small carbon footprint, and will recycle alkaline, nickel metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries, recovers 93% of all battery components and sorts them for reuse. The recovered MicroNutrients (zinc / manganese and potassium) are used by the agricultural industry in fertilizers; the steel is reused in the manufacture of new products such as cars and trucks. This patented, environmentally-friendly Marlie process will eliminate the need to landfill or incinerate dry cell batteries, and will do so for literally pennies a pound.

Although they are quite small, batteries have a large environmental footprint. Over 95% of the batteries sold in Canada in 2014 were non-rechargeable batteries; the remaining 5% (36 million units) were rechargeable batteries (including automotive lead acid batteries). Sales of primary non-rechargeable batteries are expected to increase to 745 million units (weighing an estimated 19,122 tonnes) by 2017. Not surprisingly, these devices can leave a big carbon footprint. more... See more text