David Kiefner David Kiefner

From toxic waste to growing food? Why we should recycle batteries.

Batteries contain toxic materials that can leach into the soil from a landfill, and eventually reach the drinking water supply.

Small watch batteries are actually far worse than standard alkaline batteries, like AAs and AAAs. Car batteries contain high amounts of lead.

Extracting precious metals during the recycling process reduces the need to conduct the highly detrimental mining of new raw materials, such as lithium, nickel, lead, and cobalt. Some materials are even repurposed to fertilize corn and soybean crops!

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