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wireless batteries are the newest items on girlawhirl's list of recyclables Jul 26, 2007
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Girlawhirl's got a handle on what to do with alkaline batteries when they need to be replaced, and even better, she's taken to using rechargeable ones for small electronics. But what about all the wireless gadgets that she needs to get through her day? Her cell phone is always in need of recharging, her laptop just notified her a few minutes ago that she really had to plug it in or risk losing her work, and even her digital camera beeps at her when it needs a little juice… All of those kinds of devices and more – like power tools, two-way radios and camcorders – use rechargeable batteries, and in some states like California and New York, they've got to be recycled. It's against the law to just throw them out. So what should she do when she needs to replace them or if she's just getting rid of something that contains one of these types of batteries?
Thanks to call2recycle, a Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation program, it's so much easier than she could have imagined. Since 90% of the companies that sell products that contain these batteries are part of the RBRC, lots of the places where Girlawhirl buys her replacements electronics, like Best Buy, Circuit City, RadioShack, Target and Staples have drop-off bins.
She just needs to bring any kind of Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (NI-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion) and small sealed lead (Pb) batteries to any of those stores and others that are listed on the call2recycle website. After she drops them off they'll be sent to a battery recycling facility where the metals are reclaimed and prepped to be reused in batteries or even stainless steel.
Sometimes there's a little RBRC ‘seal' on the batteries of new electronics that Girlawhirl purchases, but she can always check the call2recycle.org website to find a full list of drop off sites in her neighborhood.
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