Save Batteries, Empower Communities
Join the mission to recycle, educate, and innovate for a greener tomorrow.
OUR MISSION: Keeping batteries out of landfills.
HOW? Our forward thinking, eco-conscious advertisers on our ResQ Bins provide you with convenient drop-off points. So stash, don’t trash and as we expand our network, soon your drop-off for recycling will be as easy as grabbing a coffee. We want to keep and reuse our Earth, not discard it.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
Collect, Drop, ResQ: The Easy Battery Recycling Loop.
Single-Use Alkaline Batteries:
Recycle, Don’t Toss, Stash
Every Costco, Sam’s Club, or Walmart has walls of—AA, AAA, C, D, 9V—sold and restocked monthly. With multiple stores per city, the U.S. sells over 3 billion batteries yearly, including ~880 million AAs. At ResQ, we’re laser-focused on collecting single-use alkaline batteries for recycling, up to 96% of their materials—steel, zinc, manganese—into new batteries or products like fertilizers with our partners and sponsors. With our ResQ Bins, It’s as simple as taking your ResQ Box full of stashed household batteries to your favorite retailer on our drop-off map.
A World of Opportunity
Each year, the U.S. uses ~880 million AA batteries.
Laid end-to-end, they’d circle the Earth’s equator, stretching 27,340 miles. Stacked up, they’d tower over Mount Everest. Recycling recovers 95% of alkaline battery materials today, and future single-use sodium-ion batteries could hit 98%, using abundant sodium for a greener planet.
Dead Batteries Don’t Belong in the Ground.
Our Sustainable Path
ResQ is your go-to for recycling single-use alkaline batteries, working with our partners, we can recover up to 96% of their materials. Using rechargeables? They’re a great choice vs single-use, but don’t drop them off with us. Often you may have access to recycling rechargeables and lithium at Batteries Plus or Home Depot (check locally).
What Our Partners Say
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"ResQ will make it so easy to recycle! My family is going to love the Eco Pop Box."
— Jane D., Phoenix
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"Our students are thrilled to be able to compete in Battery Quest. It’s going to be fun and impactful!"
— Principal, Mesa
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"The ResQ panel sponsorship will give our business amazing visibility while helping the environment."
— Local Business Owner, Tempe
