CollectED Battery Recycling Initiative

Dead batteries… trash or treasure? Batteries power our lives, from toothbrushes to electric vehicles and beyond. They enable a greener future, and they’re valuable — even when their useful lives are over. The CollectED Battery Recycling Initiative exhibition is an energy-filled experience featuring four hands-on sections that explain battery basics, how they’re made, what they’re made of, where they’re found, and what happens when they no longer work for us. CollectED’s positively charged experience shares how and why we should recycle our old batteries. Test your strength by manually filling a battery. Discover the metals that give batteries different properties. Earn your electrons as you battle others in a quiz that will challenge your battery knowledge. Grab a spot at the Battery Bar to watch experts dismantle tech items to begin the recycling process. You’ll come away with battery-bragging rights and an understanding of why old batteries are treasures, not trash, and how we can power a better future.