Lithium-Ion Battery Best Management Practices: Industry Perspectives

Lithium-Ion Battery Best Management Practices: Industry Perspectives

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Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere – from our smartphones to electric vehicles – but when, damaged or defective, they end up in the waste stream, they pose serious safety and environmental risks. That’s why Waste to Resource Ontario and RLG Canada are bringing together leading experts for a must-attend webinar.

Why You Should Attend:

  • Get up to date on the latest in lithium-ion battery safety across the industry. 
  • Identify critical safety risks unique to lithium-ion battery handling. 
  • Discover best battery management practices across different industry segments. 
  • Understand key considerations for creating a safer, more sustainable battery waste ecosystem. 
  • Plus, participate in an interactive Q&A with leading experts and ask your burning questions. 

Featured speakers include Gary Diamond, President of Quantum Lifecycle Partners; Adam McFadden, Owner of Firehouse Training and Firefighter; Jon McQuaid, VP of Marketing & Communications at Call2Recycle; and Stefany James, CTO and Co-Founder of Nexstera Tech, with the session moderated by Andrea Chmielinski, Director of New Business Development at RLG.

Expect engaging discussion, expert advice, and an interactive Q&A to get your questions answered.

Secure Your Spot Today!

Don’t miss your chance to learn how collaboration, innovation, and education are driving safer, smarter battery waste solutions – register now.

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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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