Ecobat provides battery tolling services to America’s major battery producers. Battery producers operate exchange programs with their customers who collect spent batteries at the retail point of sale. Exchange arrangements ensure a closed-loop recycling supply chain that prevents pollution, maximizes value to the consumer, and mitigates exposure to commodity price fluctuations.

Spent batteries are consolidated and delivered to Ecobat facilities in full truckload quantities. Batteries are recycled, and recovered refined lead and polypropylene are returned to the battery manufacturer to continue the product life cycle.

Ecobat maintains relationships with consumers that don’t provide spent batteries for recycling. In those cases, lead products are sold at market terms.

Ecobat maintains a team of expert scrap buyers that purchase spent batteries and other lead-bearing raw materials to meet production needs of each facility.

100% of America’s refined lead production is derived from recycling. The last US primary lead smelter closed in 2013. Adequate supply of junk batteries is essential to maintain lead supply and sustain the closed-loop supply chains our customers require. Moreover, a healthy domestic network of battery recycling facilities supports our government’s effort to reduce reliance of foreign supply chains and provide abundant high paying manufacturing jobs for American workers. For more information, see the BCI 2026 Recycling Rate Study.

Ecobat, and other members of the battery manufacturing and recycling industry are working together to preserve the healthy domestic supply chain and to prevent export of spent batteries to countries with less enforced environmental regulation, thereby protecting American stakeholders.