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Originally Posted by guudasitgets
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.
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Outsourcing SLA recycling still means the batteries get recycled, just out of the country. In the case of the Prius' batteries there is ~$150 worth of Nickel in 'em at market prices so I would be surprised if they were landfilled, but again if ya have any proof, not hearsay or anecdotes that have little to do w/ the specific situation, I'm up for it.
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Originally Posted by guudasitgets
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.
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That's what you "say" but who knows if you're telling the truth or not.
Stuff like that last line is trolling. It can be applied to just about any statement to cast doubt on something and contributes little to nothing.
