[QUOTE="mio, post: 594859, member: 7212"]why yes i do!

but the problem is the pr

ocess, and the batteries' materials themselves which are dangerous.
gathering dead batteries alone polutes the surrounding area. this is why they gi
ve you money for them.
it's dangerous to just throw them away.
but what you don't seem to realise is that putting it in a recycling bin doesn't
magically make them harmless!
they gather them in 1 place to recycle them so that only that 1 place is majorly
affected, but that only works for a limited amount of batteries. if hte amount
of batteries in circulation suddenly goes up by, let's say, 1bilion car batterie
s (1 car every 7people?), the place needed would be much larger. of course cars
already have batteries, but those last a very long time because they're not used
as extensively. imagine a car that runs completely on batteries, needs more bat
teries, and how many people will follow regulations for charging to the letter?
so batterylife will decrease, and once all those bateries are dead, where do we
recycle that mountain of pollutants we just created?[/QUOTE]
I am sorry, I don't get your point.
Of course, we will recycle them in a factory.
So you think we just recharge and reuse the old battery??? No-no-no-no... That's
how you think battery recycling is? That's wrong...
We don't just let the stacks of battery rots in the landfill. The battery will b
e melted into their respective metal component, then the recycling factory could
sell it to battery maker or to other metal starving industry. For example, many
lithium from battery recycling is reused for lubricant. Also when it had been r
ecycled it will become either become new usable battery or other usable products
.
The problem is: Who are the one who recycling it? Battery recycling is not somet
hing that can be undertaken by a small workshop, but rather a huge dedicated fac
ility, after all, you need a high-grade smelter, not your average backyard smelt
er...
So Old Battery --> Recycled into component metals --> Transported to other facto
ry to turn into goods --> ??? --> Profit! (not really)
Before talking about mountain of pollutant, an average person create about 2 kil
ograms of plastic waste a day.
Using Indonesia as example: Jakarta with its over 8 millions people create 16,00
0,000 kilograms of plastic waste a day. This is just plastic, not accounting for
many trashes that we produce each day... So what do we do with this mountain of
pollutant?
Also, let's just hope the new Dual Carbon batteries, Nano-tech batteries and Sod
ium-ion batteries someday could reach the market. These battery might the answer
for our dependency on Lead and Lithium batteries. Technology march on... until
then recycle bro...