The Crisis
The battery problem is already sitting inside your home.
Remotes, toys, game controllers, flashlights, bathroom scales, keyboards, decorations, and junk drawers all run on single-use alkaline batteries. Most families want to recycle them. They just do not have a simple place to take them.
Over 3 billion single-use batteries trashed in the U.S. every year.
360k+ tons of wasted minerals sent to U.S. landfills annually.
9 out of 10 people say they prefer to recycle household batteries.
Citing EPA data, the average family buys multiple packs of AA and AAA single-use batteries each year. In the Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe area alone, that adds up to roughly 40 million batteries wasted annually.
Your move: one simple decision can turn household battery trash into urban mining with zero landfill and recovery of zinc, manganese, and steel.
It starts with the batteries people already use at home.
Most of these small batteries are still treated like trash.
ResQ puts drop-off access where people already go.
Sponsors help turn useful access into a visible local network.