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Re: My local Radio Shack no longer accept batteries

Submitted by jstack6 on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 09:35.

Stub,

  It could have been the type of batteries you tried to recycle. Most battery recycling locations will only take small Nicad, NiMH and Lithium batteries. If you tried to get them to take an alkaline battery no one seem to recycle them any more.

  An interesting note is Radio Shack and others have reduced the mercury in alkaline batteries so they are much less hazardous. That is why they stopped recycling them.

  We as consumers have to buy better batteries that are recycled. The best today at NiMH and Lithium. In fact the EPA considers lithium so benign you can throw them in your home trash. It's still best to recycle them.

   We all must stop buying Nicad, the cadmium is very bad and stop buying lead acid since lead is very toxic. It's up to ALL of us to buy the best and recycle.

the solar stacks

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My local Radio Shack is no longer accepting batteries for recycling By: stuboyle (5 replies) Sun, 12/30/2007 - 14:03