{"id":1689,"date":"2012-05-09T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T23:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:48:05","slug":"recycle-those-old-car-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/recycle-those-old-car-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle those old car batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in a recyclable world now.\u00a0 Glass, plastic, metal, paper, oil\u2026 the list goes on.\u00a0 I did wonder about what people could do with a corrosive, dud car battery.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 You can recycle these too.<\/p>\n

New Zealand\u2019s AA Battery Service is involved with recycling used car batteries, and Bill Keane, General Manager of AA Battery Service, stated that \u201cMore than 97 % of a battery is able to be recycled.\u00a0 After every replacement by our mobile battery patrols, we send the used batteries to professional battery recyclers.\u00a0 Almost all the components \u2013 plastic casing, acid and lead \u2013 are recycled to reduce the environment impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recycling car batteries helps to reduce the amount of hazardous landfill waste.\u00a0 There are plenty of landfill sites across Australia.\u00a0 You\u2019ve probably got one near to where you live.\u00a0 It is better if we can avoid the large build up of waste over the coming decades.\u00a0 At the www.ephc.gov.au<\/a> website, you\u2019ll find the low down on the Australian government\u2019s plans and policies regarding waste products and landfills.\u00a0 One of their aims is to help national companies and small businesses to operate effectively and efficiently and manage waste products and waste materials responsibly during and at end of their useful life.<\/p>\n

A car\u2019s battery is able to recharge itself so that it can power the starter motor, the lights, the electronic gadgetry and the ignition system for the engine.\u00a0 These batteries are often called SLI batteries, and they have a lead and acid mix in their chemical make-up.\u00a0 SLI batteries are huge environmental polluters.<\/p>\n

Hybrid powered cars use battery power alongside fossil fuels to power their cars.\u00a0 The hybrid batteries are a nickel metal hydride make-up, and their toxicity levels and environmental impact are considered to be much than SLI batteries.\u00a0 However, you still have to use natural resources up to produce a car battery.<\/p>\n

Whether you are in business or involved with doing your own maintenance on your car at home, the best way to dispose of your car batteries is to pop them at your local refuse station in the recycling section specially catered toward receiving old dud car batteries.\u00a0 Another benefit of recycling a used car battery is that mining for materials to replace that car battery dumped into the landfill is stopped.\u00a0 Certainly, the recycling of car batteries reduces this environmental impact.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not sure where to go with you old car battery, contact your local council so that they can point you to the closest recycling station.\u00a0 Don\u2019t put your old car battery in the household rubbish, into the general rubbish to go to the landfill or leave the old car batteries lying around the home.<\/p>\n

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We live in a recyclable world now.\u00a0 Glass, plastic, metal, paper, oil\u2026 the list goes on.\u00a0 I did wonder about what people could do with a corrosive, dud car battery.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 You can recycle these too. New Zealand\u2019s AA Battery Service is involved with recycling used car batteries, and Bill Keane, General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}