Waste Reduction
Synergize for Advanced Solutions
What are the next steps in reducing waste? This group is devoted to developing more advanced solutions to reduce, reduce, and recycle more effectively. How does your region reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics, toxics, batteries, techno-trash, and other difficult-to-recycle items? To what extent is the difficulty a product of not having technical people ...learn more
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Created: Dec 04, 2007
Updated: Nov 25, 2009
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Topic: Battery recycling
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THANKS for starting the process to take back batteries on a large scale in King County.
One Local battery recycler:
PND Corporation
14320 NE 21st St. #6
Bellevue, WA
Tel: (425)562-7252
PND currently recycles batteries dropped off at their facility.
They are one block West of Sears and Fred Meyers in Overlake neighborhood of Bellevue.
The person who answered their phone at PND said they will recycle up to 5 pounds of alkaline batteries. Free when dropped off by household consumers.
Additional pounds can be recycled for $.85/lb.
I am not connected with PND other than having talked with one gentleman on the phone. Please talk with PND management for details.
PND also accepts lead-acid batteries for recycling.
I noted that the University of Washington accepts techno-trash for recycling:
alkaline batteries
old cell phones
old computer disks
There are tremendous opportunities to interconnect people, organizations & events related to solid waste management and recycling through the on-line database and web portal, www.wiserearth.org
Portal regarding Waste Management in particular:
http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/289
Recycling/Reuse portal:
http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/127
In King County specifically:
There is one silver recycling bin I saw walking through the UW Husky Union Building (HUB). I don't know who organizes this UW battery recycling project. (Maybe you?)
Some hardware stores also collect batteries for recycling.
There are tremendous opportunities to interconnect people, organizations & events related to solid waste management and recycling through the on-line database and web portal, www.wiserearth.org
Portal regarding Waste Management in particular:
http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/289
Recycling/Reuse portal:
http://www.wiserearth.org/aof/127
These are the Washington State residents who identify "Waste Management" as a major
area of focus:
http://www.wiserearth.org/user/search?q=&r=1&groups=&is_private=&keywords=&country=United+States&name=&activities=all&state=Washington&email=&exclude_words=&city=&im=&area=Waste+Management&zip=&langsspoken=English
These Washington residents self identify "Recycling/Reuse" as a major focus:
http://www.wiserearth.org/user/search?q=&r=1&groups=&is_private=&keywords=&country=United+States&name=&activities=all&state=Washington&email=&exclude_words=&city=&im=&area=Recycling+and+Reuse&zip=&langsspoken=English
These organizations outside Washington specifically list "battery AND recycling" as a focus:
http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/search?q=recycling+AND+batteries&commit=Search
I have created a moderated professional forum to discuss advanced Waste Reduction and Recycling option for Washington State:
http://www.wiserearth.org/group/recycle/section/main
Professional staff at King County Solid Waste and other recycling leaders are invited to join the group. I'll post this message there also.
Thanks for your tremendous work for the environment.
In community,
Janine Michelsons
Seattle, Washington, USA
http://www.wiserearth.org/user/Janine
-- Above message e-mailed to King County, Washington, Solid Waste Division,
--- 12/4/07 by Janine Michelsons then posted to WiserEarth forum ---