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- From: asa@STL-09SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin on 9000)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: rechargeable batteries and recycling fees
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 09:15:46 -0600
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- >From: murthy+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sesh Murthy)
- >Why isn't there a recycling fee of $1.00/battery. I use all rechargables
- >and I do not understand why other people should not be charged for putting
- >toxic heavy metals in my environment.
-
- I'd be happy if there was a simple WAY to recycle ordinary batteries! I
- have a plastic wastecan half-full of old batteries sitting and waiting
- for someplace here to appear where I could dump them to be recycled!
- Like everybody else, I used to just pitch them in the trash. Then, a
- year or two ago, there was publicity about new legislation here in
- Missouri regarding waste disposal and recycling. One item mentioned
- was that "all places that sell batteries would be required to accept
- old batteries and then turn them over to recyclers." So I began saving
- instead of discarding old batteries. Well, that legislation went into
- effect, but it turned out that the "battery" provision was only for
- AUTOMOBILE batteries!
-
- Here I was envisioning every Radio Shack, every Walgreen's, every
- corner drugstore or snack shop that had a rack of blister-packed
- batteries would have to have a "used-batteries" can in the corner, where
- anyone could dump their old batteries and they'd eventually make it to
- some sort of recycling plant. No such luck... :-(
-
- That's what we need -- just the provisions to allow recycling, not
- some elaborate "fee" structure... And it is important that the recycling
- collection points be just as convenient as the sources to buy the
- products. It doesn't help if you have to drive to some area recycling
- center in order to get rid of the stuff.
-
- Does this type of point-of-purchase battery recycling exist ANYwhere?
-
- Regards, Will
- wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil
-