Battery recycling is your responsibility. Oh gee, thanks but I don't know which battery is recyclable or not. Do this, Take out a battery from a flashlight, remote control unit or a computer and tell me what type battery you are holding. Can you tell the difference between a lead acid battery and a nickel-cadmium…? I can't tell the difference. Maybe I am just slow or old or something but I don't take time to look at what type battery I am throwing away. What about you, do you take time to look at your dead batteries? Even if I looked I still wouldn't know the difference.

What do you do with an old, dead car battery? In this section, we are going to look at easy ways to recycle batteries without being a battery expert. Recycling has to be simple and easy in order for the ordinary Joe, red neck Mike or me to take part in the recycling movement. Do you agree? Let's keep things simple. A battery is a battery even if the composition of that battery is different. The real question is how you dispose of that batter safely. Batteries are dangerous and need to be handled with caution regardless type. In addition, if you don't know the difference between a safe battery and an unsafe one, treat them all with care.

I am going to give you a few facts about batteries then direct you to a cool link about batteries. First, according to "Environment, Health and Safety on line" nearly 3 billion dry-cell batteries are used each year. In addition, they report that nearly 99 million wet-cell lead-acid car batteries are manufactured each year."

I knew we used many batteries but I had no idea we used that many in the USA. For more information on battery facts and stats go to

Ok, I know you are aware of the amount of batteries in the world. What do we do with the old ones that pollute the planet? I am not going to try and give you directions to all the recyclable options. I am going to give a link, which can answer all your questions about where to recycle those old batteries.

The important thing is to realize batteries are toxic so don't throw the suckers in the trash make sure you recycle those nasty little critters. In other words practice battery recycling.

Now follow this link to find out more information about recycling batteries.