My cell phone battery died. How really should I dispose of it?
The increasingly prevalent rechargeable batteries that power cell phones and other electronics aren’t supposed to go in the waste basket; they need to be recycled, according to Call2Recycle, a totally free battery assortment program sponsored by manufacturers.
The business, which has collection agreements with national retail chains, tracks battery recycling nationwide. Based on their most recent data, battery recycling is taking off inside the South.
So far this year, recycling of rechargeable batteries in Alabama is up 7.7 percent.
But Birmingham is lagging behind, having only increased its recycling .8 % this year.
The people today of Birmingham have recycled 2,970 pounds of batteries via Call2Recycle, which represents only 12.5 percent of the total pounds of batteries collected in Alabama throughout the first eight months of 2010.
There are much more than 35 active assortment websites within the city of Birmingham where men and women can take their rechargeable batteries for recycling, including the DeWALT Factory Service Center on Valley Ave., which holds the record for the most batteries collected in Alabama; Home Depot; RadioShack; Lowe’s, and Allcomm Wireless.