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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls
Batteries are too heavy to send overseas to melt down for lead. Shipping weight is also the reason your batteries are made near where they are sold.
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I wish! I think the electrolyte is removed before it's shipped overseas, maybe it's disassembled too, but at almost 200 ton miles per gallon by truck, nearly 500 ton miles/gallon by train, and around 1000 ton miles/gallon by container ship, it's only a buck or two per battery in fuel costs to ship an old one to China and a new one back to the U.S. (~15,000 miles RT).