RBRC Leadership Award Goes to City of Phoenix

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC), a nonprofit public service organization dedicated to recycling rechargeable batteries and cell phones, awarded the City of Phoenix, Arizona, its 2005 “National Community Recycling Leadership Award.”

Striving to become a role model for recycling, the city enrolled in the RBRC program in 2003. In conjunction with the Office of Environmental Programs (OEP), Phoenix has created an efficient rechargeable battery collection program and has incorporated the RBRC message in various city department recycling programs, extending to other government agencies throughout Arizona.

The City of Phoenix’s efforts have resulted in the collection of over 8,200 pounds of rechargeable batteries

Calling it a great partnership, Lupe Buys of OEP said, “We use eight departments within the city to collect unwanted or unusable rechargeable batteries while RBRC pays for the processing costs to recycle them.”