Battery Recycling

We will be working with the SLO IWMA, City of Paso Robles, and The Paso Robles Recycling center to bring a new form of recycling to Paso Robles. The goal is to prevent batteries from ending up in our local landfill. Batteries in the landfill present numerous health and environmental risks. Also, by recycling these products we will be cutting down on the amount of natural resources needed to produce the never ending supply of batteries that our society has come to depend on.

Battery Facts (Taken from the EPA website)
1. Americans purchase nearly 3 billion dry-cell batteries every year to power radios, toys, cellular phones, watches, laptop computers, and portable power tools.
2. Inside a battery, heavy metals react with chemical electrolyte to produce the battery's power.
3. Wet-cell batteries, which contain a liquid electrolyte, commonly power automobiles, boats, or motorcycles.
4. Nearly 99 million wet-cell lead-acid car batteries are manufactured each year.
5. Mercury was phased out of certain types of batteries in conjunction with the "Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act," passed in 1996.
6. Recycling batteries keeps heavy metals out of landfills and the air. Recycling saves resources because recovered plastic and metals can be used to make new batteries.
 

Rechargeable Batteries
Rechargeable batteries are a great way to reduce the amount of batteries that end up in our waste stream. During a rechargeable batteries useful life it is possible for it to do the work of hundreds of single-use batteries. Once a rechargeable battery will no longer hold a charge, it is best to recycle it so that it never ends up in our landfills.

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Where

We will be accepting batteries at our office. Also, the Paso Robles Landfill excepts all forms of household hazardouss waste on Saturdays.