Battery Stewardship Media
B-cycle in Waste Management Review
29 March 2023 B-cycle has been featured in Waste Management’s April Review. The piece talks about the B-cycle mission to create a responsible battery lifecycle, from buying better batteries to safe use and convenient recycling. BSC CEO,…
Why electric car batteries may go round and round again
18 March 2023 By 2030, more than 1.7 million electric vehicles are expected to be roaming Australian roads, each fueled by a powerful lithium-ion battery. Many of those batteries are guaranteed by their manufacturers to work…
Up Front – Leading the charge
3 May 2022 Australia’s B-cycle battery recycling scheme run by the Battery Stewardship Council, aims to combat one of the nation’s fastest-growing waste streams. The launch of the government-backed scheme shines a light on why it’s…
Why we need to recycle batteries and how to do it
Fifth Estate, 15 February 2022 Australia’s new national government-backed recycling scheme B-cycle launched on Tuesday, with a nationally coordinated infrastructure system aiming to make it easy for Australians to collect and recycle single use or rechargeable…
10 News First TV coverage
15 February 2022 – Sydney News 10 News nightly bulletin with Sandra Sully regarding the launch of the Battery Stewardship Council’s B-cycle Battery recycling Scheme. Click to view footage
Nation powers up battery recycling scheme
15 February 2022 The mountain of used batteries going to landfill each year could soon become a molehill under a new national scheme to rescue the valuable resource. The government-backed B-cycle scheme officially begins on Tuesday…
Australia’s first national recycling scheme for household batteries launches
15 February 2022 – ABC News Have you ever chucked a dead AA battery straight into the bin? Many of us are guilty of doing this, despite the known risks of them contaminating landfill or even…
B-cycle national battery recycling launched
14 February 2022 – The Australian Australians can recycle batteries at major supermarkets, hardware chains, stationery suppliers and battery retailers under the B-cycle national batter scheme officially launched today. Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, Bunnings and Officeworks stores…
Electric cars and home batteries are already posing a waste problem in Australia. Here’s why
25 October 2021 As our reliance on clean energy grows as will the need to recover valuable minerals from used batteries. The challenge is about to ramp up and the Battery Stewardship Council is leading the…
BSC Media Release – Australia’s official battery recycling scheme ramping up a network with new look B-cycle
21 September 2021 TODAY we unveil our plans for a radical increase in participation of Australia’s official battery product stewardship Scheme, alongside a new look public program called B-cycle. Libby Chaplin, our CEO, said “We’re at…
Battery recycling scheme ramps up
21 September 2021 The Battery Stewardship Council (BSC), Australia’s official battery product stewardship scheme, has unveiled plans to increase participation, alongside a new-look public program called B-cycle (Scheme). CLICK HERE to read the article published by…
BATTERY STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL HOPES TO ADDRESS MARKET FAILURE, GROW COLLECTION AND REPROCESSING
9 August 2021 According to one bit of data, Australians bought enough AA batteries in 2019 that laid out, end-to-end, they would stretch 91,000 kilometres, or 2.3 times around the world. The organisation that commissioned the…
Experienced co-regulators left to fill the e-waste void
BSC Member Ecycle Solutions welcomes the responsibility of ensuring e-waste recycling targets are met despite changes to the NTCRS. Click here to read article published 2 August 2021 on sustainabilitymatters.net.au
Media Release – Australia’s Battery Stewardship Scheme now accredited
30 July 2021 The Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, Trevor Evans, today announced that he expects all battery retailers and importers to participate in the newly accredited Battery Stewardship Scheme.
Battery Stewardship: if not now, when?
11 May 2021 – written by Libby Chaplin and published by Inside Waste A 2018 CSIRO report titled Lithium Battery Recycling in Australia has identified that Australian lithium ion battery (LIB) waste is growing at a…
Morrison Government powering up household battery recycling
23rd April 2021: Minister Sussan Ley announces funding for the Battery Stewardship Council. Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said “the grant to the Battery Stewardship Council will support the development and implementation of an accredited and…
Energizer and Duracell commit to participate in the Battery Stewardship Scheme
1 October 2020: Two of the largest global manufacturers of batteries, Energizer and Duracell, have confirmed that they will participate in the Battery Stewardship Scheme developed by the Battery Stewardship Council (BSC). CLICK HERE to read…