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W2 ENERGY PARTNERS WITH TOXCO TO TURN OLD BATTERIES INTO ENERGY
Leading Green Energy and Battery Recycling Companies Team to Create
Electricity and Liquid Fuel from Battery Waste.

Toxco, Inc., one of the world’s leading battery recyclers, and W2 Energy, Inc., a developer of mass-to-energy technology, have entered into a joint venture in which W2 Energy will take approximately 600 tons yearly of carbon cake and plastics generated in Toxco’s battery recycling plant in British Columbia and will convert that battery waste into electricity and ultra low sulfur diesel.

“We think this is an excellent opportunity for Toxco to grow even more “green” as a company,” says Kathy Bruce, Vice President of Toxco Canada. “We are committed to taking care of the planet and making good use of every part of these batteries.”

Through its Big Green Box program, Toxco receives batteries of all sorts from some of the largest and most environmentally progressive companies, municipalities and educational institutions in North America. Using a set of proprietary processes, Toxco safely strips the metals out of these batteries and sells it. Up until now Toxco has been sending the shredded battery cases to the landfill.

W2 Energy will be taking this waste, primarily plastic and carbon, and converting it electricity and diesel fuel using a set of technologies developed over the last nine years.

“Toxco is an ideal business partner for W2 Energy because they have already made such an impressive commitment to environmental sustainability,” says Mike McLaren, CEO of W2 Energy. “We are pleased to utilize this material in a way that provides sustainable benefits and produces the energy our society needs.”

W2 Energy’s technology will convert the hydrogen, carbon and oxygen which comprise Toxco’s battery waste into a renewable source of fuel and electricity.

“This joint venture is ideal for both Toxco and W2. We are giving them a high quality feedstock for their machine,and they are giving us the electricity and liquid fuel we use in our operations. That’s a win/win,” says Ms. Bruce.

W2 Energy will be building a mobile mass-to-energy unit which will fit on a single 45-foot truck trailer. Inside the truck will be a complete mass-to-energy plant which will process up to 4 tons per day of plastic and carbon waste. While this plant will require electricity to start it, once running, W2 Energy’s low temperature gasifier and high efficiency steam engine will actually generate excess electricity. The resulting synthetic gas will be converted into liquid fuel. That fuel will either be used by Toxco or sold to a fuel blender for resale.

The carbon and nitrogen oxides normally generated by combusting waste will be sequestered in the W2 Energy’s algae reactor, in which various strains of algae will grow on these flue gases. The resulting algae will be gasified and turned into more fuel and electricity.

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www.w2energy.com
www.toxco.com
www.biggreenbox.com

Contact: David Freund
301-385-6253

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Toxco Inc. is Awarded 9.5 Million from DOE to Support U.S. Lithium Battery Recycling

Anaheim, California – TOXCO Inc., is pleased to announce that it has been awarded 9.5 million dollars from the Department of Energy to expand their current battery recycling operations in Lancaster, Ohio. Toxco plans to build and operate an advanced lithium battery recycling facility at their existing Lancaster, Ohio site. The new plant will be built to support the battery recycling infrastructure that will be needed with the growth of hybrid and electric vehicles in the United States all of which use large format rechargeable batteries. “Toxco is excited to have been chosen by the Department of Energy” says Todd Coy, Executive Vice President of Kinsbursky Brothers, Inc., Toxco’s parent company. “As the U.S. hybrid vehicle market continues to grow, Toxco will provide end of life management and recycling of these advanced batteries in a safe and environmentally sound manner.”

“This new plant will bring in more employment for the Lancaster area, as well as allow us to continue to recover renewable resources, such as Nickel and Cobalt, for use in the manufacturing of new batteries for the U.S. market.” says Ed Green, VP of Ohio operations for Toxco. Green continued, “The new plant represents growth for our group of companies” and noted “Toxco’s Trail, BC facility will continue to provide lithium battery recycling services to their existing customers; this plant will focus on the emerging battery market.”

Toxco is currently the only facility in North America with the capability to recycle both primary and secondary lithium batteries. Toxco’s existing lithium battery recycling operation is located in Trail, British Columbia. Additionally, Toxco manages two battery recycling operations in Ohio. The Lancaster, Ohio facility currently processes large format lead acid batteries, as well as nickel metal hydride batteries used in the current population of hybrid and electric vehicles. This facility is also only one of two technologies in North America that can recycle nickel cadmium batteries, which is a common consumer type of rechargeable battery. The recovery process used in Lancaster for the nickel cadmium batteries is deemed to be a “Best Demonstrated Available Technology” per US EPA.

For additional information about Toxco or to learn more about battery recycling please go to: http://www.toxco.com or http://www.biggreenbox.com

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Contact Todd Coy, Vice President, Battery Division
1 (800) 548-8797
tcoy@kinsbursky.com.