[ausev] Battery disposal

[Brian Lasseter]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Steve Ross <sross1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I was talking about EV's to a friend and we were talking about exchanging
> the entire battery pack to charge.  His comment/ concern was 'how are we
> going to dispose of all this Lithium in the batteries'?  Isn't this
> considered 'heavy metal' and will we have to treat it like nuclear waste?

How are we going to dispose of all those gasoline engines?  The same
way... recycle them.   Metal is metal, and it's almost always
valuable... (unless it's radioactive... but no batteries are
radioactive, except RTGs)


> Has anybody figured out what we are going to do with all these old batteries
> that have toxic waste products?  And what about the new lithium processes
> that will make even more unique metals to deal with?

All Batteries are recycleable... to varying degrees.   The city will
take them, but you can usually get more money directly from a scrap
metal dealer.
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/batteries.htm


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TTFN,
Brian "Lasso" Lasseter

"No Sane man will dance."   -Cicero (106-43 B.C.)