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Can the metal salvaged from Lithium Ion batteries and the like be used to make new lithium ion batteries? 217.171.129.73 ( talk) 12:40, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Essentially no - whereas more than 95% of lead-acid batteries in the USA, Europe and Australia (and many other places) are returned for recycling. Of those, more than 99% of the materials are re-used to make new batteries. Almost none of the lead from lead-acid batteries ends up in the environment. Lithium is frequently dumped in landfill (i.e. the massive number of small format batteries in laptops etc... this is a time-bomb as lithium builds up in the food chain and in your body ... nasty stuff). Otherwise it is turned into a sludge and mixed with concrete. There is very little true lithium recycling.
Which makes me wonder why this page shows a logo of lithium recycling top-right ... I would like to replace that - perhaps with this image ( http://www.lead-battery-recycling.com/images/recyclingloop.jpg) which is much nicer anyway... but as far as I can tell I don't have permission to upload a new image (just joined as an editor today... so be nice if I have misunderstood :) Maybe someone could replace it for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by QuestionNotTheNeed ( talk • contribs) 02:02, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
It may just be my opinion, but doesn't the opening section of this article seem a bit UK/Europe-centered? The scope of the opening section needs to be widened. Plenty of American companies support and facilitate the recycling of batteries. I do know Radio Shack accepts certain types of batteries for recycling, and that Best Buy has 3 separate bins usually located just inside the store: one for Ink, one for mobile phones... and one for batteries. In addition, most professional auto mechanics in the United States and Canada will see that Lead-Acid batteries they replace end up in a proper facility. Alkaline batteries, though, are genenerally removed from their devices once they've been drained, and promptly thrown in the nearest waste receptacle.mComputer technicians occasionally have to replace drained cr2032 lithium batteries from older machines. I'm not sure about other technicians, but i generally just throw them in the nearest waste receptacle. Similar Lithium batteries from Nintendo Game Boy games have been reaching their end-of-useful-life. There are ways to replace them, however, much like with the CR2032 batteries in computers, I'd imagine if they're replaced, the old ones are simply thrown in the nearest waste receptacle. Those that aren't replaced may pose an even worse hazard, though. -- Pandora Xero ( talk) 16:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't this subject include the recycling (or lack thereof) of non-hazardous batteries? I know that everyday alkaline batteries are now considered safe for landfills, but it seems to me that the materials in these batteries might be suitable for recycling anyway -- just as many metals are. If recycling of alkaline batteries is not possible, it would be nice to know why. If it is possible, then it would be nice to know where alkaline batteries can be taken. NoExpert-But-NotStupidEither ( talk) 18:26, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Recycling alkaline batteries is very possible and there is a spot in Wichita where my mom takes alkaline batteries to be recycled for free and I think it's called Batteries+Bulbs. And I might work on improving the subject of non-hazardous batteries if Wikipedia stops removing my additional content BlackBear8473 ( talk) 18:18, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Both users who raised this question, BlackBear8473 who was pinged before and NoExpert-But-NotStupidEither, are inactive and provided no email address. Probably not surprising. We are not perfect! Andrewa ( talk) 16:22, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
99.181.141.143 ( talk) 01:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)The spent batteries Americans turn in for recycling are increasingly being sent to Mexico, where their lead is often extracted by crude methods that are illegal in the United States, exposing plant workers and local residents to dangerous levels of a toxic metal. The rising flow of batteries is a result of strict new Environmental Protection Agency standards on lead pollution, which make domestic recycling more difficult and expensive, but do not prohibit companies from exporting the work and the danger to countries where standards are low and enforcement is lax.
When Americans turn in their old car batteries for recycling, they probably think they are doing good for the planet. And done well, recycling batteries is certainly environmentally responsible, since lead mining and processing cause far greater emissions of carbon dioxide than extracting lead from old car batteries for re-use.
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The chart claims that alkaline batteries have mercury. That was true once upon a time, but in the USA that time ended in the late 1980s for name brands, and early 1990s for generics. Currently in the US it is only alkaline button cells that have mercury, and special "mercuric oxide" batteries used in military and medical applications. Whereas the "alkaline" line in the chart would generally be interpreted to mean consumer batteries like AA, AAA, 9V, etc. see: https://www.epa.gov/mercury/mercury-batteries MacroMyco ( talk) 19:22, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
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The article states that lead battery recycling is the most hazardous job in the world. While it's certainly hazardous, it's perposterous to insinuate that the children mining virgin lead from Kabwe, Zambia are less at risk than the adults using recycled lead batteries at the Thailand battery manufacturing plant.
The worst recycling is worse than the best recycling, but the worst recycling is better than the best mining. And lead mining is not the best mining.
I won't edit this directly but I think it's patently obvious that a new battery made with 90% recycled content is better than a new battery without recycled content. Retroworks ( talk) 00:25, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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