Vape Battery Recycling Initiative

Vape Battery Recycling

Green Star of Interior Alaska has been recycling batteries for most of our history. And we want even more, now! We now have a Vape Battery Recycling Program to specifically keep vape and related batteries out of our landfill. Vape batteries often end up in our landfills where they can explode and cause landfill fires. Lithium based fires are difficult to put out. Water only makes lithium fires worse, and they do not need oxygen to burn. A recipe for disaster in landfills. These batteries also contain minerals that can be recycled instead of being mined from the ground.

Thank you to many local dispensaries and vape stores, FNSB residents can now take their vape batteries to the businesses listed below. Once the bins are filled then the business takes the bin to the FNSB Central Recycling Facility (CRF). Our volunteers sort the batteries that then get shipped down to Battery Recyclers of America where they are taken apart and recycled.

Types of Vape Batteries Accepted

  1. Refillable Vape Pens – please remove any cartridges or tanks; or drain fluid where possible.
  2. Vape Mods – must remove tank from all mods. We can recycle the mod and the batteries, but not the tanks or coils.
  3. Tobacco Pod Systems – please make sure they are empty
  4. Disposable Tobacco Vape Pens

Unfortunately right now we are NOT able to accept Disposable Marijuana Vape Pens or any Marijuana Vape Pens where the cartridge is unable to be separated from the battery due to marijuana being a controlled substance. We cannot accept anything that has controlled substance residue. Please DO NOT try to cut through a vape to try to separate a cartridge from a battery, this is very dangerous and lithium batteries should not be altered.

Participating Businesses:

Are you a dispensary or a tobacco shop and would like to participate in our free bin loan program? Please fill out this form and make sure you specify wanting to participate in the Vape Battery Recycling Program. There are two different options available for bins, a tall slim jim and a much smaller bin that can fit on a store countertop. Businesses are in charge of taking full bins to the CRF to be recycled.