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​Recycle One Million Used Batteries

One Million Batteries (1MB) is a campaign launched by Teens Against E-waste (TAE) to raise public awareness of battery recycling. ​Our goal is to collect and recycle 1,000,000 used batteries! Please join us in building a clean community and sustaining the earth!​
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We have extended the deadline to May 15th for our Earth Month environment-holiday-driven (EHD) online battery drive. Report batteries and get an "Earth Day" 1MB certificate!  

Join us to make this EHD event a success! 
1. Pass along the flyer to your family, friends, colleagues, social media, etc.
2. Collect/recycle as many batteries as possible and report your numbers. Click here to see how you can recycle and help. 

Our Achievements

Report your recycled batteries here and watch the numbers grow! ​

Recent Contributions

Check out here to see how you can help, and remember telling us how many batteries you or your team collected. 
Batteries collected from senior apartments in Cypress
Battery Recycling Event at Oxford Academy, Cypress
Collecting batteries at Luxaira Senior Apartment, Irvine
Batteries collected from AUHSD Servathon E-waste Recycling Event
College students helping run a battery drive for 1MB
1MB Battery Drive at AUHSD Steam-A-Palooza Open House for Earth Day

Why Do We Do This?

Did you know? Americans throw away 3 billion (about 180,000 tons of) batteries each year, making up about 20% of all household hazardous materials in America's landfills. More than 86,000 tons of these are single-use alkaline batteries. Is Canada or EU doing better? Read here to find out.
Why bother to recycle batteries if it is not illegal to throw them to the trash in many states? Read here for how they pollute our environment. Batteries contain corrosive materials and heavy metals that can contaminate the environment. They also contain valuable recyclable resources including non-renewable metals such as lead, nickel, zinc, silver and manganese.
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