Sunday, February 20, 2011

Did You Know Most U.S. Car Batteries are Recycled?

Did you know most U.S. car batteries are recycled?

We were at a friend's house the other day. They wanted to show us their new TV. So we watched part of a program called How Do They Do It? On this segment I learned that 90% of U.S. car batteries are recycled. Which is a good thing, since I think they said that more lead is derived from these recycled batteries than is taken from lead mines.

2 comments:

Montucky said...

Fairly recently, prices for recycled metals have gone way up. It used to be that the trash center would take old batteries more as a favor than anything else. They are now worth money. We had a collection of aluminum cans also that we had saved for years. We found with a coupon promotion, that they are now worth $.65 a pound. My how things change!

silken said...

I remember picking up aluminum cans.