Posted by webpa on 08/01/07 23:27

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?"

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