Battery Purchases and disposing of used alkaline batteries
In the ongoing effort to continue to generate savings, increase efficiencies and improve environmental efforts, the Procurement department in collaboration with the Campus Store introduces a new battery purchase process and reclamation program.
Batteries can now be purchased in individual quantities from the Campus Store at the cashier counter and no longer being sold in retail bubble packaging. This will result in a less expensive solution for students, staff, and faculty purchasing batteries for personal or institutional use. Batteries may still be purchased from the warehouse where batteries will continue to be inventoried.
In addition, as part of this collaboration, a battery reclamation program has also been established. Individuals can bring all used alkaline batteries to the Campus Store and deposit them into a reclamation container that is located at the Campus Store main entrance. When the container is full, it will be sent to a reclamation center.
The benefit to the environment is twofold; the spent batteries will not be sent to a landfill to enter a waste stream and neither will the retail packaging that batteries were packaged and sold in previously.
The savings to the campus community on this new sourcing initiative is estimated at over $6,700 annually.
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