Simple Steps to Go Green

For Streamlight distributors, taking a few simple steps can get you on the road to a greener operation. As a first step, encourage your customers to recycle their rechargeable batteries at any one of the participating Call2Recycle retail locations by providing them with a listing of local drop-off locations. You can find this information at www.rbrc.org or by calling 1-800-8-BATTERY.

Depending on the size of your operation, you also may want to consider establishing a recycling center in your own facilities – collecting and taking the old batteries to a nearby Call2Recycle drop-off location – as an added convenience for your customers. 

It's popular these days for companies to tout their "green" initiatives, but Streamlight's commitment to helping the environment is more than just talk. For a number of years, Streamlight has participated in Call2Recyle, a national program directed by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), and designed to help keep Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion), and other rechargeable batteries out of the solid waste system. While these heavy metals present no threat to human health or the environment when being used, they can be toxic to soil, ground water and air when disposed of in landfills or burned in municipal incinerators. 

Funded by Streamlight and other manufacturers and marketers of portable rechargeable batteries and products, the program lets consumers return their used rechargeable batteries to participating  national retail chains such as Home Depot, Staples, Circuit City, Best Buy, Lowe's and Target.  RBRC provides its battery recycling seals to licensees like Streamlight to imprint on rechargeable battery packs to ensure that Ni-Cd, Ni-MH, Li-ion and other battery packs are easily identified as recyclable by end users and retailers. 

The Call2Recyle program sends all recyclable rechargeable batteries to the International Metals Reclamation Company, or INMETCO, in Ellwood City, PA, where cadmium and other environmentally hazardous materials are recovered from used batteries and used to produce new ones. Streamlight also arranges to have recyclable rechargeable batteries at its Eagleville, PA headquarters picked up and taken to INMETCO for recycling.