Cr2016 Battery Cvs At Home Depot
Harper asked this catechism in acknowledgment to my contempo column about Best Buy’s broadcast electronics recycling program:
Great information! Thanks for casual it along. Out of curiosity, and accompanying in a baby way, what should I do with acclimated batteries that are not rechargeable?
Earth911.com has an online array recycling centermost locator, but back I acquainted in my ZIP code, the abutting locations that popped up were in Schodack and Saratoga. Both are accessible alone to residents.
Finding a abode to recycle rechargeable batteries was abundant easier. The Web armpit for Rechargeable Array Recycling Corporation (Call2Recycle) has a ZIP cipher chase action that brings up a host of bounded declivity locations for rechargeables, including CVS, Home Depot, Sam’s Club and Radio Shack.
Should you alike bother to try to acquisition recycle bins for approved batteries, or should you bung them instead?
Larry West of About.com has this to say:
Today’s accepted domiciliary batteries — those all-over AAs, AAAs, Cs, Ds and 9-volts from Duracell, Energizer and others — are not anticipation to affectation as abundant a blackmail to appropriately able avant-garde landfills as they acclimated to because they accommodate abundant beneath mercury than their predecessors. As a result, best municipalities now acclaim artlessly throwing such batteries abroad with your trash.
Nevertheless, environmentally anxious consumers ability feel bigger recycling such batteries anyway, as they still do accommodate trace amounts of mercury and added potentially baneful stuff. Some municipalities will acquire these batteries (as able-bodied as older, added baneful ones) at domiciliary chancy decay facilities, from which they will best acceptable be beatific abroad to be candy and recycled as apparatus in new batteries.
Chrisck had two bounded suggestions:
The Honest Weight Food Coop has a baby bin to bead off spent batteries. It’s appropriate abutting to the advice desk. Also, I afresh noticed the Guilderland Public Library has a box to bead off batteries. I don’t apperceive area they booty them, but it’s a abundant abstraction to accept declivity credibility in assorted places abreast area we alive or shop. If you don’t accept article like this abreast you, maybe you can ask your annex library to do it.
What do you do with your old batteries?
