<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Looks like most of the battery recycling is legit:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling</a></div><div><br></div><div>The other stuff, not necessarily:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/china-electronic-waste-e-waste/">http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/china-electronic-waste-e-waste/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Understand only caring about what's 'up the hill,' but the planet is a closed loop; it'll end up in our air and water eventually.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br><div><br></div><br>> I know a lot of places take batteries, fluorescent bulbs, <br>> etc. for recycling, but I have a sneaking suspicion--backed <br>> up by some investigative reporting I've seen--that a lot of <br>> the 'recycled' stuff ends up in rivers in China (presumably <br>> after any valuable components and metals are removed).<br><div><br></div>Interesting. That explains the disclaimer at http://www.lacsd.org/solidwaste/swfacilities/recyclecontact/hhw_e_waste/<br>"No electronic waste collected at these events is sent overseas."<br><div><br></div>I'm not arguing whether that is true or not; just didn't understand why it was worth mentioning. Personally, I'm a lot less worried<br>about rivers in China than I am the landfill up the hill (from where I used to live).<br><div><br></div>Randall<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>