5 days ago by Brooklyn Green Team

Beginning this week, the Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC) is placing collection boxes to recycle old rechargeable batteries and cell phones at select Greenmarket farmers markets across the city. CENYC has joined the Recyclable Battery Recycling Corporation’s (RBRC) national Call2R ...

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14 days ago by Domenick Yoney

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Daily, North America A big piece of the end-of-life plan for lithium batteries is recycling and there is only one place in North America currently capable of carrying out that procedure. That facility, owned and operated by Toxco Waste Management in southeastern Britis ...

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15 days ago by Cliff

Sometimes even when you’re contributing to a worthy cause…accidents just end up happening. The need to take any and every measure to keep batteries from ending up in landfills has been well documented by The Battery Times; which is why news such as this is disheartening. According to several major n ...

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15 days ago by firegeezer

FIRE BROKE OUT IN A BATTERY RECYLCING FACILITY Saturday afternoon in the Kootenays region of British Columbia.

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25 days ago by Kevin

Bring your unwanted computers and electronics to Re505 on Sunday November 15th for America Recycles Day! We will be open from 9am-5pm so pull that old computer out of your closet and bring it to us to be recycled. Everyone who brings something to be recycled will receive a raffle ticket for a chance ...

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26 days ago by Kevin

Re505 now accepts rechargeable batteries for recycling. You can bring the following rechargeable batteries to be recycled: Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd) Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) Lithium Ion (Li-ion) Nickel Zinc (Ni-Zn) Small Sealed Lead* (Pb) These types of batteries are commonly found in cordless powe ...

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31 days ago by Decatur Metro

[ October 24, 2009; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Have you always been able to drop off batteries? From the city's website... [Decatur Electronics Recycling] takes place Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Decatur High School Parking lot, on the corner of N. McDonough St. and W. Howard A ...

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33 days ago by Sam Abuelsamid

Filed under: EV/Plug-in One of the numerous ideas being looked at as a means of reducing the cost of batteries for electric vehicles is creating a re-use market. The premise is that even when batteries reach a point where they cannot hold enough of a charge to be useful in cars, they could still be ...

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33 days ago by Sam Abuelsamid

Filed under: EV/Plug-in One of the numerous ideas being looked at as a means of reducing the cost of batteries for electric vehicles is creating a re-use market. The premise is that even when batteries reach a point where they cannot hold enough of a charge to be useful in cars, they could still be ...

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34 days ago

Looking to create a market for used lithium-ion batteries that will help make new ones less expensive, Nissan Motor Co. and Japanese trading and financial giant Sumitomo Corp. said today they will team up to start an battery recycling business. ---------- A lithium-ion battery cell made by Nissan's ...

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