2015
Primary Resources
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James Ewles

President, Raw Materials Company

The team at RMC are world leading DE-energizer eagles, transforming over 4 million pounds of consumer batteries a year into useful raw materials. The patented alkaline battery recycling technology is able to upcycle up to 92% of a battery’s contents into new products used in steel industry and agricultural industry. No materials are landfilled and all recovered products are consumed within a few hundred miles of the ISO 14001 processing facility. Use of RMC’s technology vs. the next best in class saves 184,000 Megawatt-hours of energy, 41,100 tonnes of GHG emissions and 16,300 tonnes of solid waste a year. Powerful – AND long lasting!