Comments on: There May Be No Need to Recycle Alkaline Batteries

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:56:39 +0000

Hi Marla,

I saw your post and was wondering if you have heard for PerfPower Go Green batteries? They recycle all of their used batteries brand for free at no cost to the user. They do large scale commercial accounts too. If you register at their website iRecycled.com, I’m sure you will be able to do some business with them
Jesse

By: Marla

Marla — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:38:35 +0000

Thanks for your post Will. I came across this in my search for recycling “everyday” alkaline batteries for my project. I am trying to come up with a proposal for my hospital so that we could do the right thing and not throw these batteries in the trash. I like you, have found very little in the way of recycling these types of batteries and have found that most of the literature states to just throw them away. I am currently waiting on information from a company Battery Solutions: http://www.batteryrecycling.com/information+request+thanks/ that apparently recycles these batteries, however it is not free and I am unsure at this time what the cost is, especially for a large facility such as a hospital. Thank you for your concern for our planet.

marla:)

By: Will

Will — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:18:51 +0000

That is great in theory, Dave, but I bet the parents that would teach/enforce this already are, and the ones that are not, never will. Plus sometimes the inconvenience of recycling what should be is just too much for most people. For example, what percentage of small CFL bulbs do you think are recycled? What percentage just go right in the household trash? What is needed is better manufacturing methods and easier recycling procedures.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:49:10 +0000

Thank you Will for an enjoyable read. On recycling/ disposing don’t you think it will be better to tackle the problem from the root, e.g. make it mandatory to teach schooling kids the importance of sorting trash properly, while parents enforce garbage sorting at homes? In time ‘irresponsible’ garbage disposal will be a thing of the past. And another plus point is that it will teach people to buy less, use less, hence throw away less.

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By: Will

Will — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:17:56 +0000

Adam – Yes they can be recycled. Like anything else beyond curbside recycling, some effort is involved. You can find a few posst at this link that discuss this. As you can see, the comments are on both sides of the question.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:56:30 +0000

Thanks Will.
I really find your argument very interesting!
I really would love to read some more info and hear some more about it. So are there any ways on recycling alkaline batteries at all?! Or the fact of the hazards metals just being ignored as we still have plenty of those metal in the planet?
IF there are ways, what are the ways on recycling alkaline batteries? are they cost effective enough? If the process of re-using one battery costs more energy then producing a brand new one, any point of doing that?
Please reply, would love to hear your comment!

By: JD

JD — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:52:20 +0000

Tim: If you decided against the battery recycling kit, you could look into maybe providing CFL or LED (CFL is cheaper of course) light bulbs to your customers when they move.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:46:51 +0000

Hi Tim! I think your idea is a good one. This topic is all over the place as to whether it is needed or not. If you look at this page you can see I have written a few times on the subject and had tons of comments, many of which take opposing viewpoints. Ignore the first post on the page as it shows up even though it does not contain the word "batteries". Strange that the WordPress search engine thinks it should be included because it has "battery" in it. Sneaky spam indeed.

By: Tim Gordon

Tim Gordon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:33:52 +0000

Thank you for your intelligent discussion of this subject.
I have a moving company and am considering given each customer a battery recycling kit (essentially a pre-addressed pre-stamped box that can be dropped into the mail when full) as a goodwill gift at the end of the move.
But of course this could seems a bit daft and a waste of money if recycling is neither practical nor necessary.