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How it works
Five checkpoints, one record. Every battery is stickered and weighed at pickup, sorted and sealed at the yard, and reconciled at the recycler's weighbridge.
Why it matters
01/04·Source
Western UP and the NCR run on electric vehicles: e-rickshaws, e-scooters and e-loaders, each one wearing through its battery pack. It makes this corridor one of India's densest end-of-life battery streams.
25,50,865
electric vehicles sold in India in FY 2025-26 alone.
Source · EVreporter, from Vahan registration data ↗
02/04·Sale
Sources are fragmented and routes are thin. A used battery goes to whoever turns up first with cash, and from there, there is no documentation trail.
The informal buyer
A formal buyer
03/04·Breaking
The large majority of end-of-life batteries move through informal channels, dismantled without safety controls, with no traceability and significant material loss.
“shall not be sent for landfilling or incineration”
What the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 require of waste batteries collected under producer responsibility (Rule 4(3)).
Source · Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022, via CPCB ↗
04/04·Gap
India's formal recycling capacity runs well below what it could process. This is not a technology problem: every serious recycler can process more than it receives. The constraint is collection.
“hand over Waste Battery to registered refurbisher or recycler”
What the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 require of every entity involved in collection (Rule 7).
Source · Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022, via CPCB ↗01Fragmented sources
We buy from dealers, charging yards, fleet operators and service centres across one corridor.
02Thin route density
One dense corridor first, so every route fills before we add the next.
03Cash on the spot
Rates quoted upfront, free pickup, same-day payment and a GST invoice.
04No documentation trail
Every battery stickered and weighed, and recorded all the way to the recycler's gate.
The five checkpoints
The record is created at the first handover and travels with the battery to the last. Here is what happens at each checkpoint, and what it leaves behind.
Photographs are illustrative. Records are samples in our real formats.
Every battery gets its own sticker and is weighed individually, with a photo of the scale reading attached to its record. The seller signs the pickup manifest, and payment follows the recorded weight, with a GST invoice.
Recorded
At the consolidation yard every sticker is scanned in. Packs are sorted by chemistry and condition. Swollen or damaged packs go to a separate quarantine bay, stay on the record, and can never be added to a lot.
Recorded
Lots are single-chemistry, opened with a code that carries the chemistry and the date. A lot is sealed only when its safety checklist is complete: terminals taped or capped, no leaking packs, palletised and strapped no more than three high, PPE worn.
Recorded
| Sticker | Pickup | kg |
|---|---|---|
| OE-000412 | PK-20260811-02 | 27.4 |
| OE-000413 | PK-20260811-02 | 11.8 |
| OE-000414 | PK-20260812-01 | 26.9 |
| ⋮ 309 more | ||
The dispatch manifest lists every sticker in the consignment, the pickup each one came from and its recorded weight. It travels with the consignment and its e-way bill.
Recorded
At the recycler, the consignment crosses the buyer's weighbridge. The weight at the gate is recorded against the weight in, and the variance is written down rather than rounded away.
Recorded
Consignment record
Every lot ends in one consignment record, built from the stickers, weights and checkpoints that came before it. Recyclers get material sorted before it reaches the gate, with documentation that supports their reporting under the Battery Waste Management Rules.
Standards
The rules we hold ourselves to at every checkpoint, whoever is watching.
Sorted by chemistry and condition. Swollen or damaged packs are held in a separate quarantine bay and never enter a lot.
Handled as hazardous goods, because they are.
Material moves to CPCB-registered recyclers, nowhere else.
Every battery stickered and weighed individually, every consignment listing every sticker, from pickup to gate, so documentation is generated from real transactions rather than assembled afterwards.
Supply partners
Recyclers get material sorted before it reaches the gate, with documentation that supports EPR reporting.