NOV 4 Call2Recycle's New Bay Area Battery Campaign

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English - November 05, 2018 18:43 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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By Jason Middleton

When recycling rare-earth minerals is 100 percent supported, if we skip the recyclying process we're simply the problem.

A recent California Product Stewardship Council survey reported that of 26 surveyed waste facilities from all over California, 83 percent had a fire at their facility. Sixty-five percent of the reported fires were due to batteries.

And if you factor in the finite amount of rare-earth minerals we have on the planet that these batteries require, battery recycling becomes almost an ethical responsibility issue.

Here's my chat with the CEO of Call2Recycle as we talk about a new Bay Area battery campaign.