A battery recycler Terrapure Environmental based in Burlington, Ontario, recently celebrated the opening of a new plastics recycling facility at its battery recycling plant in Ville de Sainte-Catherine, Quebec.
According to company, the new facility is the largest of its kind in Canada and will allow it to further contribute to the circularity of the economy of Quebec and Canada by recycling plastic battery casings for reuse in the creation of new products.
“The opening of this facility is a significant milestone for our company, one that demonstrates not only our commitment to protecting the environment but also to growing our operations in Quebec,” Terrapure President and CEO Ryan Reid says. “By adding plastic recycling to our well-established lead battery recycling capabilities, we are able to further close the recycling loop for our battery manufacturing customers.”
The company states thatr its recycling process, which includes washing and shredding the polypropylene (PP) chips from used battery casings, followed by extrusion of the chips to create plastic pellets of about 3 millimeters in diameter, is completed entirely at Terrapure’s Ville de Sainte-Catherine location. According to company, it invested nearly $30 million to develop the new facility.
The pellets are shipped to customers in North America to produce new items, including new battery casings. According to Terrapure, it can produce approximately 10,000 tons of recycled PP pellets annually.
