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Indian-American environmental campaigner
Sri Nihal Tammana
Sri Nihal Tammana at the CNN Heroes 2022 award ceremony
Born2009
NationalityIndian-American
OccupationEnvironmental campaigner
Years active2019–present
Known forFounder of Recycle My Battery
Websitehttps://recyclemybattery.org

Sri Nihal Tammana is an American environmental campaigner who specializes in battery recycling.

Environmental work

He is founder of the US-based non-profit organization, Recycle My Battery. His nonprofit installs free battery recycling bins and educates students and adults about battery recycling. By end of 2024, the organization had recycled nearly 585,000 used batteries and educated over 38 millions of people about battery recycling.

Tammana has since made a number of media appearances, including a live appearance on CNN, featuring on the Japanese TV network Fuji TV, a TED talk called "Saving earth, one battery at a time", and an upcoming appearance on BBC. He delivered his second TED talk called "Recycle My Battery: Empowering Communities" about issue of battery waste, in 2023.

Tammana was also featured on Time for Kids, as one of the Kid Heroes of the Planet.

On October 7, 2023, Recycle My Garbage broke a Guinness World Record for the Longest Line of Batteries by placing 31,204 batteries in a line. The previous record stood at 1,380 batteries.

Awards

References

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