Lead-Acid Automobile Batteries Nearly 90 percent of all lead-acid batteries are recycled. Almost any retailer that sells lead-acid batteries collects used batteries for recycling, as required by most state laws. Reclaimers crush batteries into nickel-sized pieces and separate the plastic components.[...]
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June 18th, 2009 - 2:42 pm § in Recycling Facts
Reduction at Home
Consider reducing your purchase of products that contain hazardous ingredients. Learn about the use of alternative methods or products-without hazardous ingredients-for some common household needs. To avoid the potential risks associated with household hazardous wastes, it is impor[...]
June 18th, 2009 - 2:41 pm § in Recycling, Recycling Facts
Household Hazardous Waste
Leftover household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable, or reactive ingredients are considered to be “household hazardous waste” or “HHW.” Products, such as paints, cleaners, oils, batteries, and pesticides, that contain potentially hazardous ingredients require[...]
May 15th, 2009 - 9:01 pm § in Recycling, Recycling Facts
Benefits of Recycling
* Recycling protects and expands U.S. manufacturing jobs and increases U.S. competitiveness. * Recycling reduces the need for landfilling and incineration. * Recycling prevents pollution caused by the manufacturing of products from virgin materials. * Recycling saves energy. [..[...]
May 15th, 2009 - 9:00 pm § in Recycling Facts
Benefits of Reduction
* Saves natural resources. Waste is not just created when consumers throw items away. Throughout the life cycle of a product from extraction of raw materials to transportation to processing and manufacturing facilities to manufacture and use waste is generated. Reusing items or making them with[...]
May 15th, 2009 - 8:59 pm § in Recycling Facts
Source Reduction and Reuse Facts
* More than 55 million tons of MSW were source reduced in the United States in 2000, the latest year for which these figures are available. * Containers and packaging represented approximately 28 percent of the materials source reduced in 2000, in addition to nondurable goods (e.g., [...][...]
May 15th, 2009 - 4:36 pm § in Recycling, Recycling Facts
Managing solid waste - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends a three-tiered approach for managing solid waste. Each of these should be practiced to decrease the amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), more commonly known as trash or garbage, headed for final disposal. They are in order of importance: Red[...]