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Yep! Kona has partnered with Call2Recycle to take care of all battery recycling at the end of their life.

Call2Recycle is the country’s largest consumer battery stewardship and recycling program, with a network of thousands of public collection sites. Founded in the mid-1990s as a voluntary, industry-run initiative to keep the heavy metals from rechargeable batteries out of the solid waste stream.

Yes, the structure is set up so that the eco fee is passed along the chain to the end consumer. These fees all ensure the program runs effectively. Here’s how it works:

• As the importer of record, Kona will remit the fees to C2R. It’s $15 per electric bike or aftermarket battery.
• Kona will be passing the eco fee to the dealer when they are shipped any ebikes or batteries.
• The consumer buying the bike or battery will pay the dealer the fee.
• This fee ensures that when your battery has reached the end of its life that it will be safely recycled and there will be no additional fee.

Nope. The fee you paid at the time of purchase is the only fee you’ll ever need to pay to recycle your battery.

This will vary from dealer to dealer as it’s up to them if they want to sign up to be a battery collection site.

Great! The more collection sites the better! It costs nothing to become a collection site. Find out more info here

We will do our best to encourage our dealer network to participate in the program, but if they haven’t had time or choose not to participate, please use the locator to find you nearest location.

By recycling batteries, you divert them from landfills which helps to protect the environment. Metals in both batteries and cellphones can be recycled and used in new products such as new batteries, stainless steel alloy and cement additives. Recycling reduces the need to mine for virgin material to manufacture these products. It should be noted that in certain states it may be extremely dangerous and illegal to throw away lithium batteries.

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