Operating a Closed Container Pool, Multi-Chemistry, Battery Collection System

Uniseg Products established Battery Rescue Australia in 2014 to demonstrate the efficacy of a ‘Closed-loop Battery Collection System’, using it’s Battery Transport & Storage (BTS) Container.

The ‘Closed-loop Battery Collection System’ was designed to eliminate manual handling of used lead acid batteries from the used battery generator to the recycler.

With the growth in waste Lithium batteries, we are increasingly finding their unsafe inclusion in our BTS Containers. To combat these risks, Battery Rescue introduced in 2024, its Used Lithium Battery (ULiB) Box to its ‘Closed-loop Battery Collection System’. The UliB Box is designed to provide our customers with a safe and regulation compliant system for storing and transporting their waste Lithium batteries and to prevent their inclusion with the lead acid batteries collected in our BTS Containers.

Discover what were the technical challenges we had to overcome to accommodate a wide variety of Lithium battery sizes and types, while meeting regulatory requirements and providing a system that was operator friendly.
We will share the outcomes of the introduction of the UliB Boxes and other strategies used to reduce the inclusion of Lithium batteries with our lead acid batteries.

Presenters

David Bush

Director / General Manager, UNISEG Products Pty Ltd

David Bush, Bsc Science, Post Grad Diploma Geophysics, is currently a Director and General Manager of Uniseg Products and its sister company Battery Rescue Australia, located in Perth, Western Australia. He has held these positions since joining the companies in 2014.
David is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Battery Rescue’s battery collection service and growing this demonstration business.

David is the author of the “Knock on Wood – why wooden pallets shouldn’t be used to transport used lead acid batteries” article, which was published in the Feb/Mar 2019 edition of Inside Waste.

David also played a significant role in getting the UN P801 Packing Instruction revised to include provisions for transporting used lead acid batteries in plastic bins. This was approved by the UN Subcommittee for Transport of Dangerous Goods in June 2018