Battery Recycling:
East Penn Manufacturing & East Penn Canada
are committed to the highest standards for environmental health and safety through our state-of-the-art recycle facilities and company-wide dedication to the safe recycling of lead acid batteries. East Penn Manufacturing recycles batteries in an environmentally-friendly manner at their on-site EPA approved smelter/refinery and re-uses them in the production of new battery products.
East Penn Canada is fully licensed for the pick-up and transportation of spent lead acid batteries and you can rest assured that no used battery picked up by any of our authorized company vehicles will ever end up in a land fill site. Recycling your batteries through East Penn Canada will also eliminate any risk of low priced rebuilds entering your local market.
East Penn Manufacturing on-site smelter.
200 million lbs. of lead a year
2/3's of all lead used in the manufacture of new East Penn batteries are from recycled lead.
11.8 million lbs. of plastic a year
Battery cases and battery cells are ground and processed into polypropylene pellets where they are molded into new parts and cases.
6 million gallons of acid
East Penn scientists invented the patented process that reclaims sulfuric acid from spent batteries.
Excess heat is redirected to warm adjacent manufacturing facilities in the winter.
24,000 tons of fertilizer
Sulphur fumes generated during the smelting process are captured and reprocessed into a liquid nitrogen sulphur solution which is used to make fertilizer.
Virtually 100% of a lead acid battery is recycled and re-used in the production of new batteries.
Virtually 100% of a lead acid battery is recycled and re-used in the production of new batteries.
East Penn Manufacturings computer-controlled, closed-loop system, co- located with our manufacturing facilities, recycles virtually 100% of each spent battery received for processing.
Our EPA-approved lead smelter
& refinery recycles an average
of 30,000 batteries per day, or
17 million batteries per year.
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