Posted on 11/23/2005 8:27:00 AM PST by ideablitz
They are lithium-hydride. Not really a hard thing to handle. I'd worry more about old improperly discarded lead-acid batteries.
Mo Dowd's vibrator .... wonder how often it gets used ....
They'll recycle the lithium for DU meds.
I read somewhere that fire departments won't use the jaws-of-life on hybrid or electric vehicles because of the risk of electric shock. So you and your batteries might get buried together.
A hybrid vibrator? The Toyota priapis?
The rescue guys are developing modified equipment and training for use on hybrid and electric cars. It is a big concern. A good samaritan or paramedic can be fatally electrocuted quite easily.
From the Toyota website:
Toyota has a comprehensive battery-recycling program in place and has been recycling Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) batteries since the RAV4 Electric Vehicle was introduced in 1998. Every part of teh battery, from the precious metals to the plastic, plates, steel case and the wiring, is recycled. To ensure that batteries come back to Toyota, each battery has a phone number on it to call for recycling information and dealers are paid a $200 incentive for each battery collected.
(IN a previous post I said these are Li-On batteries, I apologize for the mistake).
Check with a corporation called PRBA. I think it is as follows: Portable Recyclable Battery Association. Located in Washington DC.
Easy to dispose of old batteries, put em in your neighbors trash.
Why don't you ask Toyota and Honda? They're selling them, they should have a solution.
And by the way, hybrid drivers can keep a maintenance charge on the batteries by plugging into their electric provider. That uses many coal fired generation plants.
Legally,the manufacturer of the battery in question is responsible(OSHA)for it's safe and timely disposal.Where i work,we receive hundreds of used batteries(from our customers ie retail dealers)per week.System wide,i'd estimate my company alone receives thousands each week.Usually these are batteries left by the customer with the retailer(when they buy a new one),and our customer(retailer)returns them to us for proper disposal,and credit.We in turn send the batteries to a smelter who recycles the lead,plastic,and acid.
PS,i assume hybrid batteries will be dealt with in the same manner.
Steam-powered cars would be nuclear powered. It would be nice to not have to stop at a gas station every couple hundred miles, but what would we do with that radioactive water? We would still have to stop every couple hundred miles to refill the steam tank, and pay a greater amount per gallon.
(spew!) You just made me lose a mouthful of Coke. LOL!
I asked a local hardware store person why was there so much difference between the price's of cordless drills, and I ws told that a drill made here in The US had 100.00 EPA disposal fee on it but that a China made one had no fee.
He was pulling your leg.
In MoDo's case, only temporarily.
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