Toss that battery and you will be breaking the law!

Yeah, batteries have corrosive chemicals in them. I remember tossing a hearing aid battery into the fireplace once. It exploded. Hehehe!
 
Wheter it is law or not , it is still a good idea to use the recycling programs in your local neighborhood . :) :thumb:
 
FYI* IKEA does offer recycling bins for batteries and light bulbs (usually it is found in the same area where you take your stuff to return)...

Some recycling/land fill areas will take on your metals/batteries/and so forth for free (But for bigger applicanes like microwave, fridge, TV, et cetera, there is a fee. However there is an expecation: many areas won't charge you if you turn in your computer... they usually sell computers to schools where fixing computers is being taught. Nice program.

You can check out if your recycling/land fill do have a such program by googling it up. I was able to find information for San Diego county easy so everybody-- KNOW WHERE YOU CAN RECYCLE YOUR STUFF!

Didja know you can recycle your plastic containers from Starbucks? Just look at bottom for a triangle with 1 or 2 in it... 1 or 2 can be recycled with your soda cans, glass bottles if you got a blue bin at your home for trash. EVEN some plastic bags you got from grocery stores can be recycled!!! Just look for the same triangle printed on the bag...!

Plastics that got embossed triangles with 3, 4, 5 at bottom are more harder to recycle and usually requires you to take it to your landfill where they have a special bin for those sorts of plastic.
 
That's very interesting, good thing to have an batteries recycling.
 
Well the best way to deal with the batteries w/o having to drive for miles to the recycling depot is to throw the batteries on the street and let the street sweepers deal with it.

Richard
 
Nesmuth said:
Well the best way to deal with the batteries w/o having to drive for miles to the recycling depot is to throw the batteries on the street and let the street sweepers deal with it.

Richard
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Throw it on the streets and let them deal with it? That's littering if you decide to throw it to the streets.
 
Street swepers get $3,000 for each bottle of pee they find on the freeways. I wonder how much will they get for each battery they find.

Millions of Californians who use hearing aids, cochlear implants, hand held communicators are affected. There is absolutely nothing going on within the California's deaf and hard of hearing communities with regards to education of proper disposal of their hearing aid, cochlear implant proccessor, and mobile communicator batteries.

Richard
 
Nesmuth said:
Street swepers get $3,000 for each bottle of pee they find on the freeways. I wonder how much will they get for each battery they find.

Millions of Californians who use hearing aids, cochlear implants, hand held communicators are affected. There is absolutely nothing going on within the California's deaf and hard of hearing communities with regards to education of proper disposal of their hearing aid, cochlear implant proccessor, and mobile communicator batteries.

Richard
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:gpost: and you do bring up a very good point. I never thought about that. Should I bring my bag of dead hearing aid batteries to the battery recycling center?
 
Nesmuth said:
Street swepers get $3,000 for each bottle of pee they find on the freeways. I wonder how much will they get for each battery they find.

Millions of Californians who use hearing aids, cochlear implants, hand held communicators are affected. There is absolutely nothing going on within the California's deaf and hard of hearing communities with regards to education of proper disposal of their hearing aid, cochlear implant proccessor, and mobile communicator batteries.

Richard
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Talk about personal responsibility! Jeezzz, it seems to me the most logical place to get rid of hearing aid and CI batteries would be to take them to your audiologist's place. Why is it that there must be a law to get people to do the right thing? Can't people think for themselves?
 
Tousi said:
Talk about personal responsibility! Jeezzz, it seems to me the most logical place to get rid of hearing aid and CI batteries would be to take them to your audiologist's place. Why is it that there must be a law to get people to do the right thing? Can't people think for themselves?
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:gpost: and you got a good point there also. I will be checking with the audiologist's office. :) :thumb:
 
Heath said:
:gpost: and you do bring up a very good point. I never thought about that. Should I bring my bag of dead hearing aid batteries to the battery recycling center?
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You're better off pissing into a bottle and then turning that in. You'll get more money that way. ;)
 
OFC, its been illegal for years! Problem is that EPA can NOT do anything when it comes to personal level. When it comes to business, they better be careful with this.
 
VamPyroX said:
Yeah, batteries have corrosive chemicals in them. I remember tossing a hearing aid battery into the fireplace once. It exploded. Hehehe!
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OoOoOoOoOoO you did that threw the battery into the fireplace and got exploded?? ahh sound like dangerous lol :lol:
 
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