Battery Disposal/Recycle?? Where do you take yours?

[drippaboi]

As to batteries the chemicals and acids would be contained in a landfill so don't see what the issue is, but I don't know what they do with them when they properly dispose of them so I can't say if it's good or bad.

Because there is no such thing as groundwater infiltration ...

 

[four2109]

No recycled tin cans are easier to produce than from ore so they are good for the environment, nothing to do with land fills etc. Recycling other things though is a bad thing, take paper for example. You collect it in a different truck which runs on magic fairy power you then use another magic fairy powder to bleach it before you mulch it and process it back to paper, it produces more waste and uses more power which is more pollution and that's not even counting all the extra miles you had to move the paper to get it to a recycling centre. Want to save the environment? Don't recycle anything apart from cans.

As to batteries the chemicals and acids would be contained in a landfill so don't see what the issue is, but I don't know what they do with them when they properly dispose of them so I can't say if it's good or bad.

Show me the math where it's cheaper to go cut down a tree and start over to make paper, The energy expended in extracting aluminum from ore, the petroleum that the plastic came from....and the lives lost fighting over it.

 

[Ryedan]

I take my batteries and any chemicals I need to dispose of to our city recycle station. I have a bag of them right now. I'll ask them what they do with them when I go.

 

[TLS01]

My local Best Buy has a kiosk just inside the door for recyclable items. It's the only reason I go there.

 

[bluecat]

Home Depot? Awesome! I know they also take those awful new mercury fluorescent lightbulbs back.

Thx!
Andria

I really hate those lightbulbs. 12 year life my .... Those are the worst thing that could ever be put on the market. Give me incandescents back. What an idiotic decision there. 3 years ago the energy company gave me 48 of them. All 48 are dead. That is extra trips I had to make to dispose of them properly. Governmental meatheads.

Save energy? Turn off the lights and electronics.

 

[Circa Survivor]

^^^ unlike

Ya people tend not to be too fond of rebellious activity. I do it just for you

 

[illregal]

I just throw them in the fireplace for a festive light show.

 

[3mg Meniere]

I just throw them in the fireplace for a festive light show.

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[AndriaD]

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Really! With all the mercury in that house, that family will be the modern day Mad Hatter clan.

Andria

PS: the first time I read your new sig, I laughed so hard I snorted hot tea up my nose. Probably felt a lot like that entire flower.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Really! With all the mercury in that house, that family will be the modern day Mad Hatter clan.

Andria

PS: the first time I read your new sig, I laughed so hard I snorted hot tea up my nose. Probably felt a lot like that entire flower.

With my ADV's being floral teas, I thought it was especially appropriate.

 

[HauntedMyst]

Battery Disposal/Recycle?? Where do you take yours?

I take my batteries, used motor oil and medical waste and bury them on Vegan farm land to help their soybeans taste better.

 

[Smann245]

We shouldn't be making paper from trees anyway. We should be using hemp.
When you take stuff that comes from dirt, bury it in dirt, it turns back into dirt. Burying other stuff is kinda shady.

 

[drippaboi]

I take my batteries, used motor oil and medical waste and bury them on Vegan farm land to help their soybeans taste better.

I lolled irl

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

I've also been advised not to pitch 'em in my trash.

So I pitch 'em in my neighbors trash can.

 

[SuperTaz]

Lol cloud minder.....Like a grenade....I just trow them back at ya along with mine.

 

[The Torch]

ROFLMAO!!!!

I do have periodic fantasies about fleeing this den of insanity, and the only reasonable place I can think of is Canada; they speak English there, and it's a hell of a lot closer than Australia. And I like snow. I could probably learn Spanish, took it in high school and it's not a difficult language at all, and I'd have to say that the Mexican people I've met have also been very nice, but I just can't get with the Montezuma's Revenge down there. Also there are apparently NEGATIVE jobs down there, since half of them wanna come up here to work.

Andria

We have Mexican farmers who don't stick around for winter, but no real good Mexican restaurants. We do have Taco Bell, though. There are plenty of ski slopes out West, but most people also speak English over here. We have plenty of very nice small English towns out East too. You should do a tour during your next vacation trip, but I strongly recommend doing that during summer. If you find a place you like, then go spend a month during the dead of winter (January/February) to make sure you still like it. There is more than just snow in winter: there is the biting cold too.

No recycled tin cans are easier to produce than from ore so they are good for the environment, nothing to do with land fills etc. Recycling other things though is a bad thing, take paper for example. You collect it in a different truck which runs on magic fairy power you then use another magic fairy powder to bleach it before you mulch it and process it back to paper, it produces more waste and uses more power which is more pollution and that's not even counting all the extra miles you had to move the paper to get it to a recycling centre. Want to save the environment? Don't recycle anything apart from cans.

As to batteries the chemicals and acids would be contained in a landfill so don't see what the issue is, but I don't know what they do with them when they properly dispose of them so I can't say if it's good or bad.

Recycling paper is very energy AND cost efficient for paper and pulp mills and they still have to bleach whatever they start with, expect for newspapers. Sure trucks eat energy, but how about the number of trucks needed to carry trees, on top of deforestation? Trees take decades to grow big enough to matter. I don't need to go out and learn more math to be sure about this, I've been to paper recycling plants and have seen pulp and paper mills... the undeniable difference in size for a similar output makes it clear that recycling paper is extremely efficient.

I did not mean you should not recycle cans, I was half joking. What I meant is that the chemicals from batteries eventually leak out of landfills (don't forget it rains there too) and will eventually contaminate underground water, which tends to feed plants and humans in the end - sometimes fish too. Cans don't really tend to leak out as much bad chemicals, but should still definitely be recycled as it takes a lot of electricity to make aluminum. Recycling cans is easy in comparison: melt and mix. Batteries ARE recycled to make more batteries and the non-usable parts are neutralized and used in other ways whenever possible. Whatever can't be used is disposed of in a much safer manner than just throwing batteries out.

 

[AndriaD]

We have Mexican farmers who don't stick around for winter, but no real good Mexican restaurants. We do have Taco Bell, though. There are plenty of ski slopes out West, but most people also speak English over here. We have plenty of very nice small English towns out East too. You should do a tour during your next vacation trip, but I strongly recommend doing that during summer. If you find a place you like, then go spend a month during the dead of winter (January/February) to make sure you still like it. There is more than just snow in winter: there is the biting cold too.

My fantasies usually revolve around the eastern side of BC, where it's quite dry (and snowy as opposed to rainy!), and I find dry cold quite tolerable; down here in winter, it can be 45 and raining and it's the most miserable weather EVER; that damp cold just gets *into* you, no matter how many layers you wear. Which is why I would never want to live in, or even visit, someplace like England or the Netherlands in the winter; I can't deal with damp cold at all.

But it's probably safe to say that my fantasies will remain just that; it's very expensive to relocate to a different *state* nevermind whole other country, and I'm reasonably certain I'll never have that kind of wherewithal.

Drat it all.

Andria

 

[The Torch]

My fantasies usually revolve around the eastern side of BC, where it's quite dry (and snowy as opposed to rainy!), and I find dry cold quite tolerable; down here in winter, it can be 45 and raining and it's the most miserable weather EVER; that damp cold just gets *into* you, no matter how many layers you wear. Which is why I would never want to live in, or even visit, someplace like England or the Netherlands in the winter; I can't deal with damp cold at all.

But it's probably safe to say that my fantasies will remain just that; it's very expensive to relocate to a different *state* nevermind whole other country, and I'm reasonably certain I'll never have that kind of wherewithal.

Drat it all.

Andria

No matter the probabilities, fantasies don't have to stop evolving