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Posted by nappy on 08/02/07 00:14
"webpa" <webpa@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 1, 1:36 pm, Rick Merrill <rick0.merr...@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> davesvi...@aol.com wrote:
>> > When I first started in video, my VHS and S-VHS cameras all took lead-
>> > acid batteries weighing about a pound and about 1in thick by 7in long.
>> > I now have about 10 old dead ones. I would like to dispose of them in
>> > an environmentally friendly way and guess that I could take them to
>> > the garage that handles lead-acid car batteries. But, they charge by
>> > the battery and hope that there is some place that charges by the
>> > pound. Anyone know how to get rid of batteries? Now that I think of
>> > it, I also have some old dead nicads.
>>
>> > Dave
>>
>> Did you try Radio Shack?
>
> I realize this will prompt a bunch of spasmodic responses, but: Take
> the batteries out in your back yard (garden). Dig a 1 m deep hole.
> Bury them. That's where all components in the batteries, including
> the H2So4, came from. Yes, it may take 10,000 or 10,000,000 years for
> all the "plastic" components to degrade. But: So what? We live on a
> planet made of elements created in the explosion of a star (more
> likely: stars) predating the solar system by several billion years. If
> there was a life-bearing planet(s) in the system(s) around any of the
> precursor stars, how do you think the occupants would consider our
> preoccupation with "global warming?"
>
brilliant. Now.. think of 15 billion batteries. Your back yard ok?
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