I have small children and small children have toys......and in our home, we have a ton of toys.....and with most toys there comes
BATTERIES.
In the US, there are about
three billion sold annually and I swear my wife spends more money on AA and AAA batteries than she spent originally on the toy. This January and February, we will use a ton of them since the kids just received new toys for Christmas and I have not yet decided to pull the batteries out for good.
(I know it is mean, but what parents hasn’t told their kid the annoying fire truck just broke.) Batteries are a necessary evil when it comes to cool toys and gadgets, but they are terrible for our environment. They contain heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel, which can contaminate the environment when batteries are improperly disposed of.
When incinerated, certain metals might be released into the air or can concentrate in the ash produced by the combustion process. So the next time you are headed to the trash can with a handful of dead batteries think about what it will do to our environment. In our home, we do our best to recycle batteries and we keep a small canister in the garage.
When the canister is full we take them to be recycled properly.
Here are a few different places you can properly recycle batteries in Corpus Christi:
Best Buy, The Home Depot, Radio Shack, Sears, Wal-Mart, Target, and Cricket Wireless.
