Epa solar container battery

What types of batteries will EPA collect?

EPA will gather input from all parties across the battery value chain for all batteries, including small format consumer electric and portable batteries, mid-format batteries, and large format batteries for mobility, vehicles, energy storage, and industrial uses.

What are EPA's battery recycling guidelines?

The guidelines, which EPA will finalize in 2026, will address a wide array of battery types and uses for all battery formats. Ultimately, the guidelines will help achieve EPA’s goals of improving battery recycling and collection, promoting consumer education, and reducing safety concerns. The guidelines will do this by:

Will new EPA rules improve recycling of end-of-life solar panels & lithium batteries?

EPA is planning to propose new rules to improve the management and recycling of end-of-life solar panels and lithium batteries.

What does EPA do about battery recycling?

EPA aims to increase the recovery of critical materials within the developing U.S. battery recycling infrastructure by improving the proper identification and handling of batteries in battery collection, sorting, and processing facilities.

What are the new EPA battery labeling guidelines?

EPA has developed new voluntary battery labeling guidelines to increase consumer awareness of the presence of batteries in products and to empower consumers to properly dispose of them, depending on their local collection programs.

Will EPA add hazardous waste solar panels to Universal Waste Regulations?

EPA is working on a proposal to add hazardous waste solar panels to the universal waste regulations found at Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 273 and to establish a new, distinct category of universal waste specifically tailored to lithium batteries.