{"id":6993,"date":"2015-07-27T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2015-07-15T23:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T06:28:15","slug":"why-are-alkaline-batteries-considered-hazardous-waste-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/why-are-alkaline-batteries-considered-hazardous-waste-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Alkaline Batteries Considered Hazardous Waste In California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are Alkaline Batteries Considered Hazardous Waste In California? I understand that nicads are bad because of the cadmium. But alkalines haven&#8217;t had toxic metals in them for years. Am I missing something?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duracell.com\/en-us\/battery-care-and-disposal\/disposing-of-general-purpose-and-alkaline-batteries\" target=\"_blank\">[Duracell] Alkaline batteries can be safely disposed of with normal household waste<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveready.com\/faqs\/gold-batteries\/Pages\/faq.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s safe to drop [Everready] batteries right in the household trash<\/a>. In 1989, Eveready Battery Company became the first company to remove all added mercury from alkaline batteries.&#8221;<br \/>\nVermont regulations: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvswmd.org\/uploads\/6\/1\/2\/6\/6126179\/battery_flier_6-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Place [alkaline batteries] in trash<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nNew York regulations: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomii.com\/local\/new-york-city\/battery-disposal\" target=\"_blank\">Regular alkaline batteries are not considered hazardous waste because they no longer contain mercury<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>California regulations: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calrecycle.ca.gov\/ReduceWaste\/Batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">All batteries are considered hazardous waste in California when they are discarded<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are Alkaline Batteries Considered Hazardous Waste In California? I understand that nicads are bad because of the cadmium. But alkalines haven&#8217;t had toxic metals in them for years. Am I missing something? &#8220;[Duracell] Alkaline batteries can be safely disposed of with normal household waste.&#8221; &#8220;It\u2019s safe to drop [Everready] batteries right in the household [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}