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Article: AUTO BATTERIES ARE TOP RECYCLING TARGETS.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 26, 1990
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We see the headlines every day - "Medical Waste Pollutes Ocean." "Acid Rain Damages Forests." "Toxic Chemicals Poison Shellfish."
Such news is spurring worldwide environmental activism. How can automobile owners help?
Take batteries, for example. Seventy million of them become spent and are scrapped each year. Some 60 million of them come from car owners with the other 10 million being inside scrapped automobiles.
And every year, a significant amount of those spent batteries disappear, too.
No one knows what happens to them, but battery recyclers believe they may be dumped in landfills, woods, lakes, streams and even the ocean, where ...