Waste Recycling

Waste Recycling

Good evening readers. Another busy week down but another awaits. Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend.

Last Monday I visited Richard “Rocky” Brittain in his office to interview him for a story I was doing on graywater. After our conversation, I shifted to the subject of recycling. He told me he separates and recycles his glass and paper. Then he brought up batteries and oil. I went brain dead because I had recycled my car batteries before but it completely slipped my mind. I couldn’t recall how oil was recycled.

“A lot of people don’t think about recycling their oil,” Brittain said. “All you have to do is drain the oil out of your car, take it to Checker Auto Parts and dump it into their barrels and it gets recycled.”

I learned something new that day.

Car batteries aren’t the only kind that can be recycled but also rechargeable batteries. Brittain mentioned power tool and little flashlight batteries could be taken to Home Depot.

This website on battery recycling is broken up into three categories: businesses, government/municipalities and household. I found these tips under the household section because it brought up some good points. People might think twice before throwing a battery away. The website is:

http://www.batteryrecycling.com/household.html

Benefits of a Battery Recycling Program:
· Keeps all the hazardous metals in one place
· The metals reclaimed are reused and put back into the manufacturing process to build more batteries
· The plastic is recycled to be used again
· The cost of landfilling the batteries is saved
· Establishes good environmental policy
· Saves natural resources
· Protects the future
· Conserves for future generations
· Countries have gone environmentally bankrupt by not managing their waste products. Recycling helps prevent this from ever happening!

The main website is:
http://www.batteryrecycling.com/?src=google

This last website I liked because it lists the locations in Tucson where people can take their batteries and oil for recycling. AutoZone and Checker aren’t the only ones listed. It showed locations for other types of recycling like aluminum and appliances. Scroll down and you'll find a lot.

http://www.cityoftucson.org/tcb/rd/rmbsr.htm

Enjoy folks and talk to you next week.