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If you have solid information that proves they aren't recycling feel free to post it, but asking if I "believe them" when they "say" whatever can be applied to just about anything. Bull like that is just trolling.
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With regulations of battery scrap processing quite high in this contry a lot of recyclers are shipping these out of the country. Most of the SLA battery production left this contry 10 years ago for much the same reason, they are just not made here anymore. Scrap with heavy metals is one thing but it gets worse when something is deemed OK to dump in a landfill. Thats where Lithium-Ion battery packs start falling throught the cracks. Unlike Nicads they do not contain the toxic metal Cadmium. And as there is Cobalt and other materials that could be taken from them, a large part of the scrap from laptop computers and other small electronics just end up in landfills because they are not considered toxic waste. The potential is there to either ship them out to other countrys for reduction and then to a landfill or a more expensive process to get the Cobalt out as well as the other metals, cost prohibitive in this country if you keep it all here. Hence the attraction to send it elsewhere. But see the article link below he touchs on some of that. I'm not saying nobody recycles them I ment it's hard to do this in this country, I apologize if I was wrong and stand corrected. But I wouldn't take everything Toyota says is gospel either.
Lithium ion batteries: High-tech's latest mountain of waste - Computerworld Blogs
And "bull like that is just trolling". Sorry I don't know what trolling is, I was in the industry for 15 years I'm just telling you what I know.
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P.S. Should I "believe you" that your neighbor "said" she couldn't get her car started? Do we know where this neighbor is? I put that up there because I'm trolling/joking in the same way.
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Do I know where she is ? Ya safe and sound in the house next door I took her to the store to get food for her kids and drove her back. Good thing is my cars sorta warmed up now.