Sri Nihal Tammana

Sri Nihal Tammana is an Indian-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 2022, the organization had recycled nearly 200,000 used batteries and educated 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 Battery 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

 * 2023: Top 3 finalist for the International Children's Peace Prize
 * 2023: Honoree NJ Governor’s Volunteerism Awards
 * 2023: Diana Award
 * 2023: Youth Summit Awards
 * 2022: CNN Heroes, Young Wonder Award
 * 2022: Gloria Barron Prize, Young Heroes
 * 2020: National Waste & Recycling Association, National Recycling Award
 * 2020: President's Environmental Youth Award
 * 2020: New Jersey Governor's Environmental Excellence Award