Happy Birthday Battery!

Happy Birthday Battery!

Der 18. Februar ist internationaler Tag der #Batterie und in diesem Jahr wird sie bereits stolze 221 Jahre alt. Mittlerweile sind die vielen kleinen und großen Energiespeicher aus unserem modernen Leben nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Die Batterie startete ihren Siegeszug Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in Form des Bleiakkumulators. Im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert revolutionierte dann die Lithium-Ionen-Technologie die Batteriewelt. Die neuartigen Akkus kamen zunächst in Videokameras, Laptops und Smartphones zum Einsatz, ehe sie vor gut zehn Jahren auch in Elektroauto Einzug gehalten und in der Folge maßgeblich zum rasanten Aufschwung der E‑Mobilität beigetragen haben.

Um die vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Batterien nachhaltig zu gestalten, wichtige Ressourcen für Schlüsseltechnologien zu sichern und unnötigen Umweltbelastungen vorzubeugen, müssen rechtzeitig innovative Sammel‑, Rückführungs- und Recyclingverfahren weiterentwickelt und geschlossene Wertstoffkreisläufe für Batteriematerialien etabliert werden.

Dieser Herausforderung stellen wir uns in unserer täglichen Arbeit. Mehr dazu finden Sie hier.

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Les Griffith - Speakers

Business Development Director RLGA

Les Griffith is currently the Business Development Director at RLGA and is tasked with expanding the company’s data management offerings for packaging EPR in the Americas. Les has over 30 years of industry experience in Environmental Services, Extended Producer Responsibility and Reverse Distribution. Les has spent these last 30 years working with organizations to develop progressively more sustainable solutions to the management of end-of-life materials. Prior to joining RLG, Les spent eleven years at Covanta most recently serving as the Business Development Director for the Healthcare Solutions division. His group covered North and Central America and specialized in providing a suite of services to healthcare PROs, take-back services to retail pharmacy and law enforcement and environmental services to the healthcare sector and reverse distributors. Prior to Covanta Les spent 10 years at Waste Management Inc. as an Area Manager for their Healthcare Solutions group.

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Andriana Kontovrakis - Speakers

Director of Compliance Services RLG

Andriana Kontovrakis is the Director of Compliance Services for Reverse Logistics Group’s US team.  She manages a team responsible for ensuring manufacturer and retailer customer compliance with EPR laws for electronics, batteries, packaging, household hazardous wastes, and other consumer products across the US. Along with RLG partner the Household and Commercial Products Association, she is spearheading the development of the Household Product Stewardship Alliance, a stewardship organization forming under the guidelines of Vermont’s HHW EPR law.  Prior to working with RLG, she was a Policy Analyst with the global electronics recycler Sims Lifecycle Solutions where she managed programmatic implementation and customer and supplier accounts for the US EPR compliance unit and the Deputy Director for Waste Prevention for the NYC Department of Sanitation.

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