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Old 12-07-2010, 01:50 AM   #12 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
[T]he aluminum is so thin that you loose most of it when you recycle them (aluminum foil has little to no scrap value as it turns to oxide when you melt it) but you get almost all of the copper back
I'm sure more food-caked aluminum foil goes into landfills than will ever be lost to lithium batteries. :-)
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