Recycling Service for Lithium & Other Non-lead Acid Batteries
Battery Rescue’s service for recycling of Lithium and other non-lead acid batteries delivers safe and regulation compliant transport of used Lithium Batteries, destined for recycling.
You can find a summary of the often complex Dangerous Good Regulations governing the transportation of Used Lithium Batteries for disposal or recycling.
Battery Rescue’s provides several different options to cater for small to large batteries and low power versus high power batteries with an elevated fire risk. Customers can either hire our customised boxes and bins on a short term basis (2 month) or long term (12 month).
Used Lithium Battery (ULiB) Box
The ULiBtm Box has UN Certification as a “Rigid plastic combination package containing lithium batteries” for a maximum of 60kg of Lithium batteries (approval number 60195). This makes it suitable for the road and rail transport of Lithium batteries as per the requirements in the “Australian Code for Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Road & Rail (ADGC Ed 7.8)”.
The Box’s dimensions are External 900L x 550W x 500H mm Internal 725L x 456W x 250H mm Weight 18kg.
Each ULiB box is fitted with a 4G Enabled GPS Tracking device and feet to make them forklift able.
It can be configured to store and transport low power and high powered Lithium batteries, as detailed below:
1. Low Power Lithium Batteries
For low powered batteries, the ULiB box can be supplied with 6 Dry Cell Cartons which are suitable for the storage and transport of these smaller batteries. Low power batteries are all non lead acid batteries D Size or smaller.
6 Dry Cell Cartons are supplied with the UliB Box for low powered batteries.
2. High Power Lithium Batteries
For high power Lithium Batteries, D size and larger, we offer either a ULiB Box for smaller quantities of batteries or a ULiB Bin for larger quantities and / or large batteries.
In both instances the ULiB Box and ULiB Bin are supplied with the with the fire suppressant granules (FSG), The FSG prevents movement of the batteries during transport and will suppress any battery fires.
ULiB Box with fire suppressant granules
The ULiB Box is supplied with a 55L (13kg) Bag of Fire Suppresant Granules for high power batteries. The tare weight of the box is 23kg and with the bag of Fire Suppresant Granules (FSG) the combined weight is 36kg.
OR For Multiple Large Lithium Batteries >12kg Each
ULiB Bin with fire suppressant granules
The ULiB Bin’s external dimensions are120L x 100W x 74H cm, Internal dimensions 112L x 92W x 60H cm – tare weight 55kg. The ULiB Bin is supplied with 5 Bags (Total 275L or 65kg) of Fire Suppresant Granules. Total weight with 5 bags of FSG is 120kg.
Note: Under the ADGC packaging requirements for Lithium batteries only 12kg or larger batteries are permitted in the ULiB Bin. For smaller batteries a UN Certified Device / Container must be used.
How the Lithium Recycling Service Works
The UliB Box and ULiB Bin are available for short term (2 months) and long-term hire (12 months). You can find pricing details here, including battery recycling costs, below:
Upon returning the full ULiB Box or ULiB Bin, it will be weighed, with the weight deducted for the ULiB Box or ULiB Bin and the Fire Suppresant Granules, to determine the net weight of batteries. This weight will be used to determine your battery recycling costs.
The batteries are delivered to our Autralian based recycler for recycling.
Returning the ULiB Box
For our metro Perth customers, Battery Rescue will deliver an empty ULiB box and collect the box when it is full.
For our regional and mining customers and you will arrange the ULiB box’s return to our nominated Perth address.
You can find detailed return instructions including generating your DG Labels under the website menu Customers > Returning the ULiB Box.
Returning the ULiB Bin
For our metro Perth customers, Battery Rescue will deliver an empty ULiB Bin and collect the Bin when it is full.
For our regional and mining customers and you will arrange the ULiB Bin’s return to our nominated Perth address.
You can find detailed return instructions under the website menu Customers > Returning the ULiB Bin
