Used Battery Pickup

East Penn Manufacturing and East Penn Canada are committed to the highest standards of environmental health and safety through our involvement in the safe recycling of lead batteries.

East Penn Canada is fully licensed to safely pick up and transport used lead batteries. You can rest assured that no used battery picked up by any of our authorized company vehicles will ever end up in a landfill site.

East Penn Canada is a market leader in promoting the safe collection and recycling of used lead batteries.

Key features:

• East Penn Canada will pick up used lead batteries for recycling
• All company warehouses, vehicles and drivers are fully licensed for the transportation and storage of used lead batteries
• East Penn Canada collected over 95 million pounds of used batteries in 2020
• All used batteries are safely recycled at an environmentally friendly smelter

It’s easier than ever to recycle used batteries with East Penn Canada’s proprietary mobile battery recovery app. Simply notify us when your battery has reached the end of its life and schedule a convenient pickup or dropoff time.

East Penn Manufacturing’s computer-controlled, closed-loop system, co-located with its manufacturing facilities, recycles virtually 100% of each used battery received for processing. Our innovative secondary lead smelter and refinery processes an average of 30,000 batteries per day for recycling.

Here’s how it works:

• Manufacturing: Leveraging recycled materials, we manufacture premium lead batteries.
• Use: Our customers rely on our high-performance batteries for various applications, including transportation, material handling, backup power and more.
• Collection: Once the batteries reach the end of their life, we pick up the used batteries.
• Recycling: We reclaim primary materials through our award-winning closed-loop recycling method to be used in the manufacture of new lead batteries.

East Penn aims to integrate eco-friendly initiatives into every step of the battery manufacturing process.

Key features:

• About 82% of all lead used in the manufacturing of new East Penn batteries is from recycled lead
• Battery cases and cells are ground and processed into polypropylene pellets to be moulded into new parts and cases
• East Penn scientists have invented a patented process that reclaims sulfuric acid from used batteries
• Excess heat is redirected to warm adjacent manufacturing facilities in the winter
• Sulfur fumes generated during the smelting process are captured and reprocessed into a liquid nitrogen sulfur solution, which is used to make fertilizer
• Our highly efficient smelting facility provides lead required in the manufacture of our products*

*Excluding Deka Unigy batteries, which are manufactured from virgin lead.

East Penn Canada is proud to have received the 2020 Environment + Energy Leader Award in partnership with Terrapure for our closed-loop circular-economy approach to lead battery recycling.