King County supports battery collection event in Lynnwood Saturday

A free household battery collection event will be held at the Lynnwood Whole Foods Market on Saturday April 13 from 9 am to 3pm. The event, hosted by BETTERY and Total Reclaim, will accept all types of dry cell household batteries, including lithium and button batteries. (Vehicle and boat batteries are not accepted). Shoreline and Lake Forest Park residents are encouraged to participate.

Whole Foods is located at 2800 196th St SW, just off the Alderwood Mall Parkway.

The event will also promote the use of BETTERY’s new rechargeable battery Swap Stations. The stations provide customers with the ability to buy fully-charged reusable batteries, use the batteries until they are drained and then return to the station and “swap” them for fully charged batteries.

This reuse model greatly reduces landfill waste and energy usage; one BETTERY re-useable, rechargeable battery can replace up to 500 single use batteries.

The new BETTERY Swap Stations provide a user-friendly system for supplying rechargeable batteries at convenient locations and at an affordable price. In addition, the kiosks will accept used alkaline batteries at no cost or obligation to purchase the Bettery product. The collection events reduce the cost of managing batteries currently incurred by government agencies. For these reasons, the King County hazardous waste program has agreed to support the promotional efforts of this new venture.