First of all, the EoL Battery must be returned to the OEM that produced and sold the application in which the battery was used. This can also be a party representing the OEM. By example, in the Netherlands, EoL Batteries are now collected by STIBAT (Stichting Batterijen) and ARN (Auto Recycling Nederland).
The EoL Battery is a hazardous good and requires expensive transportation according to the ADR guidelines and storage with the right pre-cautions. It is therefore that it is Cleantron’s primary objective is to focus on the development of technology to limit the transport costs by making the EoL Battery non-hazardous as local as possible.