Not supposed to throw away batteries.

[JanieDough]

Did yall know you are not supposed to throw batteries in the trash? The acid leaks into the groundwater and ruins shit.

I didn't know this until I helped this lady clean out her house - she is kind of a hoarder and she needed some one to come haul and decide what to throw and I am kind of anally organized so she asked me to help her.

I came home with a file box full of batteries which I couldn't even lift - I promised to find a place to dispose of them properly and soon found out my city doesn't provide a way to get rid of stuff like that except once a year on "house hold hazardous waste day."

So i found this solution online:

iRecycle

and this one for computer disks

GreenDisk [Services]


which kind of sucks if you don't have money, but really how often do you need to send in a 40lb bucket of batteries?

 

[Dana]

I throw them in the trash. I've heard you're not supposed to but proper disposal costs money I don't have so I don't care.

 

[JanieDough]

you could collect them in a jar at the bottom of your closet and find out where you can drop them - i live in louisiana so i am sure where ever you are is more progressive than here - i am sure they have a place to dispose of them properly

 

[Alien Allen]

You have bought into the environut propoganda

Tell me what makes more sense.

Collect all the batteries and throw them into one massive pile of batteries where the concentration is great.

Or throw them into the general trash where they are more evenly distributed.

What does make sense is to recycle them to recover what is reusable.

The rest is overblown bullshit by environuts

 

[JanieDough]

they don't just dump! they process them or they dump them in a place where the acid doesn't sink into the groud

you must watch fox news?

 

[Alien Allen]

they don't just dump! they process them or they dump them in a place where the acid doesn't sink into the groud

you must watch fox news?

Actually I have more knowledge than you might imagine on this kind of stuff.

Not all the stuff we get spoon fed is true. :nod:

 

[JanieDough]

i too have knowledge of this "stuff"

i am not spoon fed anything


in what capacity do you have knowledge of this stuff?

 

[Alien Allen]

i too have knowledge of this "stuff"

i am not spoon fed anything


in what capacity do you have knowledge of this stuff?

Sorry but I do not tell people what my job is.

Lets just say I have spent my life dealing with the DEQ in MI.

I have sat in on countless local and state regulatory meetings over the last 20+ years on a state and local level.

I have seen first hand how environmental groups with agendas use and abuse data to fit their agenda.

 

[AUDRAA]

Sorry but I do not tell people what my job is.

what! I thought everyone knew you used to be president of the United States, thats a secret?

 

[JanieDough]

ok well this isn't political

and i have worked trying to clean up the shit people just dump

i live in louisiana - the dumping ground of the middle states

all this shit flows down the mississippi and pollutes our state and our fishing waters in the gulf. it all has to go somewhere and i am tired of people blowing it off as bullshit agenda

i don't like it when some one who doesn't know better throws their bitterness out there and gives other people excuses to not do the right thing

recycling and making sure you don't pollute the environment isn't just some hair brained scheme to get people to spend money and waste time. just ask the fishermen down here or the farmers who can't grow plants along the polluted mississippi.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I throw them in the trash. I've heard you're not supposed to but proper disposal costs money I don't have so I don't care.

Your not alone. Our organization started a disposal program for CFL lights, batteries, electronics, and cell phones. The money we get from recycling the electronics and such usually balances out the money we lose from driving the rest of the stuff to the correct disposal area.

Most states have a green team or something of that matter, maybe you should call and ask if they can start a disposal program in your area?

 

[JanieDough]

Your not alone. Our organization started a disposal program for CFL lights, batteries, electronics, and cell phones. The money we get from recycling the electronics and such usually balances out the money we lose from driving the rest of the stuff to the correct disposal area.

Most states have a green team or something of that matter, maybe you should call and ask if they can start a disposal program in your area?

i dont think it sounds as if he cares enough to call and ask about it

there probably is one and he doesn't know.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

i dont think it sounds as if he cares enough to call and ask about it

there probably is one and he doesn't know.

Probably.

Glad to see there is another environmentally friendly person on the boards, that actually speaks up :thumbup

 

[JanieDough]

thanks and i will always speak up if i feel i know what i am talking about and if it is something i care about

but if i dont know i don't say shit

 

[Alien Allen]

i dont think it sounds as if he cares enough to call and ask about it

there probably is one and he doesn't know.

Maybe part of the problem is you started the thread with this.............

The acid leaks into the groundwater and ruins shit.

Then you move on to state this.............

all this shit flows down the mississippi and pollutes our state and our fishing waters in the gulf.

Are you aware of the difference between surface and groundwaters?

I am disputing what you started with about groundwater. Surface water pollution is another matter.

If landfills are polluting groundwater which is not likely then there are a lot of other things that I would be worried about. Aging landfills would be constructed differently and more succeptible but then the issue is current disposal.

The earth is an amazing filter which can tolerate a lot. Did you know that raw sewage when it has passed thru 25' of soil has been fully filtered?

By the way I do recycle stuff. Everything we can goes in the recycle bin. I support that. What I do not support is misinformation. And a lot of what is out there is agenda driven.

I saw some shows about asbestos removal. In each case they took it and bagged it and threw it into one particular spot in a landfill where it would be highly concentrated. Does that make sense or would it be better to have lesser amounts spread out. Just saying

 

[satinbutterfly]

You can take batteries to Radioshack and they will dispose of them properly.

 

[JanieDough]

i am going to have to test out my local radioshak.

 

[sierrabravo]

lowes or home depot has boxes that they collect batteries. and best buy and radio shack. i've known about the poisonous battery thing for 20 years but there was never recycling of batteries until people became "GREEN" in september....

 

[JanieDough]

no yall are thinking of rechargeable batteries

the ones i am talking about are household batteries

besty buy and that doesn't take regular batteries - just cell phone, etc.

 

[RedRyder]

what! I thought everyone knew you used to be president of the United States, thats a secret?

He's FBI..... :ninja