Dead batteries... aren't very much fun (was: Re: [TriLUG] UPS Batteries)

[Douglas Brown]

I've had great luck with batteries plus - took a load of dead UPS
batteries over and got new ones fairly inexpensively - watch dimensions
on the new ones, I have a big APC matrix unit w/o a top because of the
size of the new batteries... but it works great.

-doug

"William W. Ward" wrote:
> 
> I don't think they handle disposable batteries (that is to say, batteries
> that are manufacture with the intention of being chucked in the landfill,)
> but they do take nickel cadmium and lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride
> cells.
> 
> The link below should take you to their store locator page.  Call them and
> ask, it would seem desirable to recycle all types of batteries if such a
> process were practical.  I know the larger lead-acid cells have been
> recycled for many years, and there is a big campaign by some organization to
> coax people into recycling their consumer electronic battery packs as the
> metals within are more troublesome than the traditional alkaline cells.
> http://www.batteriesplus.com/locator.html
> 
> I'm not specifically interested in promoting this store above others, but I
> don't have any experience or knowledge of other vendors in the area - and my
> experiences with this particular vendor have been very good.
> 
> Bill
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Franklin" <franklin at elfie.org>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:37 AM
> Subject: Dead batteries... aren't very much fun (was: Re: [TriLUG] UPS
> Batteries)
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:53:56AM -0400, William W. Ward wrote:
> > > As a related aside, Batteries Plus also accepts old rechargeable
> batteries
> > > of all types for recycling, including cell phone packs, laptop batteries
> and
> > > individual rechargeable cells you might use in place of alkaline
> > > disposables.
> >
> > Will they take regular batteries (alkaline or otherwise) for recycling,
> too?
> >
> > jf
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-- 
Douglas Brown
Manager of Security Resources
UNC Chapel Hill
Abernethy 105