tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261262990290532740.post5783082812005656970..comments2024-03-28T04:57:15.421-07:00Comments on Pergelator: Kerr Mason JarChuck Pergielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473338620167201696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261262990290532740.post-38062363359142645522018-01-08T00:12:48.483-08:002018-01-08T00:12:48.483-08:00Thanks for your entertaining and informative artic...Thanks for your entertaining and informative article on Kerr jars. My goal with this posting, is to attempt to inform the masses about battery recycling as I know it.<br /><br />Lets say you drop off your batteries for 'recycling' at a store or ?? . You usually dump them in a bucket or lined box, and leave feeling good because you did the right thing-recycled, right? When the store 'recycle' situation is 'full' the batteries are then moved to a 'transfer' station. At the station, trucks are waiting with fifty gallon metal drums. I'm not sure how many fifty gallon drums the 18 wheelers hold but it's a lot. The batteries are dumped into these drums and when these drums are full, the trucks transport these drums to Arkansas, Alabama, where landowners are standing by. (The landowners have contracted with whomever.) These drums are then emptied onto the local landowners property. This includes mine shafts, landfills, caves, canyons or whatever the contract calls for and is available.<br />So if you think you're recycling the batteries, I guess you are. You're getting the damn things out of sight and mind right? Isn't that what we consider recycling? Are we too 'good' to dump them here at home, say, in California? Or we just like being fooled because it's convenient? I wonder what the grand kids and great grand kids that live on or near these dumpsites have to say about getting batteries from California or elsewhere.... or if they'll even care.mtnmaxjax21https://www.blogger.com/profile/00306171726450063087noreply@blogger.com