Batteries – an environmental success story.

Lead-acid batteries are a real environmental success story. Compare the proportion of reclaimed of common recycling efforts:

  • 97% of lead-acid batteries,
  • 55% of aluminum soft drink and beer cans,
  • 45% of newspapers,
  • 26% of glass bottles and
  • 26% of tires

Lead-acid batteries top the list of the most highly recycled consumer product. – Battery Council International. To find out more, visit www.batterycouncil.org.

 

Percentage of automotive batteries in Ontario that Tonolli recycles

75%

Number of batteries Tonolli recycles every year

Over

5 million

Number of full-sized football fields that could be filled with Tonolli’s recycled batteries annually

73

Amount Tonolli has recently invested on environmental improvements

$20 million

Tonnes of batteries that are processed every year at Tonolli – batteries that could otherwise go to landfill

70,000

Number of days of “No Lost Time Injuries.”

1400