Home improvement giant Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW) has installed permanent recycling centers in nearly 1,700 stores throughout the U.S. The centers offer free recycling for rechargeable batteries, cell phones, CFLs and plastic shopping bags.
At each Lowe’s store in the contiguous 48 states, customers can drop off any expired, unbroken CFL, any rechargeable battery up to 11 pounds and all used cell phones and plastic shopping bags. Lowe’s stores in Canada also feature recycling centers to ensure CFLs and batteries are responsibly recycled.
Call2Recycle, Lowe’s rechargeable battery and cell phone collection partner, estimates that consumers use an average of six wireless products in their day-to-day lives. Rechargeable batteries are a long-lasting and environmentally responsible power source for many of these devices, but they require proper disposal at the end of their usable life.
Lowe’s said it recycled more than 334,000 pounds of rechargeable batteries last year through limited initiatives.
Earlier this month, Lowes announced it will expand its in-store "Energy Centers" nationwide.
The retailer began testing the so-called "one-stop" for energy saving products in 21 California stores last December. Lowe’s said the model was a success, bringing products for measuring, reducing and generating energy together in a single location within the store, combined with information for integrating the technologies into the home.
In June, Lowe’s participated in an $8 million funding round for Recurve, a San Francisco-based provider of software and services for the home performance industry.
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