Please recycle your batteries

[Tirodani]

We're all using batteries with our lights, and all batteries wear out. Please recycle them.

This site can tell you where to recycle rechargeables: http://www.rbrc.org/

For primaries: http://earth911.com/recycling/


We all know that lithium is a finite resource. You might be interested to know that, according to this battery recycler and wikipedia, lithium from batteries is recovered as lithium carbonate, which can be used to make LiCoO2 for li-ion batteries. Please don't throw away our lithium!

 

[Sub_Umbra]

That's kind of a cool site.

Most of us are probably not far from a Radio Shack -- I bring my secondaries in every so often. I don't use many primaries.

 

[GarageBoy]

I really hope they actually recycle those batteries in the bin

 

[Bonky]

so what do you do when you get there? Looks like a Home Depot and Target near me do it... I haven't seen any signs there before. Whom does one ask?

 

[Sub_Umbra]

so what do you do when you get there? Looks like a Home Depot and Target near me do it... I haven't seen any signs there before. Whom does one ask?

Just walk around asking employees untill you find someone who knows.

I really hope they actually recycle those batteries in the bin

At Radio Shack everyone I've talked to about it has known exactly what I was talking about. The last time I dropped some off the guy who took them was very pleased and thanked me for taking the time to drop them off.

 

[Bonky]

why don't they have a buyback program if they're valuable?

 

[carbine15]

Lowe's has a battery recycling box at their product returns area here in Washington state. I'm pretty sure that cadmium from NICad cells is toxic to plants so please recycle.

 

[Tirodani]

Lowe's has a battery recycling box at their product returns area here in Washington state. I'm pretty sure that cadmium from NICad cells is toxic to plants so please recycle.

Plants, schmants!

Cadmium is also a potential environmental hazard. Human exposures to environmental cadmium are primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.[17] However, there have been notable instances of toxicity as the result of long-term exposure to cadmium in contaminated food and water. In the decades following World War II, Japanese mining operations contaminated the Jinzu River with cadmium and traces of other toxic metals. As a consequence, cadmium accumulated in the rice crops growing along the riverbanks downstream of the mines. The local agricultural communities consuming the contaminated rice developed Itai-itai disease and renal abnormalities, including proteinuria and glucosuria.[18] Cadmium is one of six substances banned by the European Union's Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which bans certain hazardous substances in electronics.


Cadmium and several cadmium-containing compounds are known carcinogens and can induce many types of cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium#cite_note-18

 

[saabgoblin]

Plants, Schmantz? Humans eat plants, recycle your batteries and your non flashaholic's batteries as well and hopefully they don't get shipped to China were most of our computers are winding up and polluting China which in turn pollutes the US and the rest of the globe.

 

[Black Rose]

What I find rather annoying with our city's recycling program is that they go to all the trouble of listing which retailers will take back the various kinds of rechargeable and non-rechargeable cells, and then put a statement on their recycling site "Small quantities of household batteries can be included in your residential garbage." :poof:

 

[CdBoy]

Plants, schmants!

please be kind to our planet. we only have one Earth. please help by recycling because everybody recycle everybody happy.

 

[GarageBoy]

So how can I recycle primaries?

 

[metlarules]

So how can I recycle primaries?

See post 1. :D

 

[Tirodani]

Plants, Schmantz? Humans eat plants

please be kind to our planet. we only have one Earth. please help by recycling because everybody recycle everybody happy.

Hey guys, you don't have to convince me -- this is my thread! :laughing:

I was responding to someone who said that cadmium is toxic to plants. I responded with "plants, schmants" and a Wiki quote to the effect that cadmium is also toxic to people.

But yes, of course, recycle.