Posted by Bill Fright on 08/07/07 16:22

webpa wrote:
> 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?"
>

Wow! Were you born this stupid or did you have some traumatic brain injury?

Just because all the elements to produce the battery can be traced back
to natural elements does not make a battery a safe candidate for
decomposition. I suppose you feel the same way about plutonium!

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