The Battery Clinic partners with the Auckland Regional Council to reuse and recycle spent batteries. Hazardous waste are collected once a year in each suburb. Residence are asked to put out their hazardous waste such as batteries and paints that are not collected in the weekly rubbish and annual inorganic collections. Batteries collected by the Hazmobile are delivered to the battery clinic in Otahuhu. These are first reconditioned for reuse. Unreconditionable batteries are sent to Exide in Wellington for traditional battery recycling.

Batteries can be taken to The Battery Clinic at 33 Great South Road, Otahuhu, Auckland outside of the schedule hazmobile collections in your area. You can also ring us for a free collection. Let your spent batteries have a new lease of life. Reuse and Recycle to a greener future.

Traditional Battery Recycling

More than 97 percent of all lead in batteries is recycled. ( 55% of aluminum soft drink and beer cans, 45% of newspapers, 26% of glass bottles and 26% of tires ) Lead-acid batteries top the list of the most highly recycled consumer product.

The typical new lead-acid battery contains 60 to 80 percent recycled lead and plastic. Dead batteries collected are sent to a recycler where, the lead and plastic are reclaimed and reused by a battery manufacturer. This means the lead and plastic in the lead-acid battery in your car, truck, boat or motorcycle have and will continue to be recycled over and over.

To this impressive record the battery clinic through it’s reconditioning, restoration and reuse business model enable 50% of all dead batteries an be given a new lease of life. Reuse saves our environment because every battery reused is one less manufactured. A huge savings in resources and energy used in manufacturing.

Battery Collection

Spent batteries are collected by the battery clinic, battery retailers, motor mechanics metal recyclers and ARC hazmobile. These are picked up by Dominion Batteries ( The Happy Scrappy ) and delivered to the Exide battery recycling plant in Wellington.

Bring your spent batteries to our factory at 33 Great South Road, Otahuhu, Auckland. Let your batteries be reused before recycling.

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Exide Recycling

At the recycling plant, acid is drained from the batteries and the batteries are crushed.

Plastics are recovered and palletised. These are used to make new battery casing.

Lead ingots are made from lead grids and lead oxide. These ingots are used to make new battery grids and other lead components for new batteries.

The acid and sulphate is converted to sodium sulphate and are used in the manufacture of textile, glass, detergent and fertilizers.

Almost 90% of batteries are recycled efficiently and safely.

The Battery Clinic Reuse and Recycle

By introducing reuse into the battery life cycle we greatly reduce the impact of toxic battery waste as well as making quality batteries affordable to many people.

Battery Restoration and Reconditioning

As a result of age or left in an undercharge state, hard sulphate form reducing the battery’s capacity. These strong molecular bonds will not convert back to lead dioxide under normal charging.

Pulse energy breaks these molecular bonds enabling the charging of the battery normally.

Almost all parts of the lead-acid batteries are recycled. The sulphuric acid is purified and recycled. The lead plates are melted, refined, and recycled. The plastic case is shredded and recycled. Recovery rate of 98% is the highest among recycled products.

We are able to restore and recondition 50% of all scrap batteries. We hope to make this as an intermediate step in the ‘battery life cycle”. The world uses approximately 600 million batteries a year. Imagine the impact in reduction of CO2 emmission if we recover and reuse 300 million batteries every year!!

Restored Batteries and Sustainability

Our planet is in Peril.
Restored batteries are a sustainable product. Saves you money and save our planet.

We are able to restore and recondition 50% of all scrap batteries. The world uses approximately 600 million batteries a year. Imagine the impact in reduction of CO2 emmission if we recover and reuse 300 million batteries every year!!