[Wylug-discuss] I am going to see Master of the recycling bin - Do you have any questions.

[James Holden]

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Graham Whaley wrote:
| The 'New' meanwood road recycling plant has a special bin for
| batteries I believe.  You might want to verify this before you go
| down there though.
|
| If memory serves me right they have bins for various little items,
| like shoes and mobile phones. Breaks my heart every time I go down
| there though, seeing what stuff is probably going for landfill.  And
| worse, they won't let you take anything away to re-use, which as far
| as I can see, is the best form of recycling. Hmm, would have liked
| that manual old Singer sewing machine that was there :-(.
|
| Took some glass sheets (only small) down at the weekend, and asked
| where I should put them - and the answer - in the 'General Rubbish'
| bucket, which I guess means landfill :-(

I suppose they're concerned about liability, although so long as they
don't sell you anything, I suppose they're not entering into any kind of
transaction with you.

Back when I was a kid, we took all sorts of things away from the dump,
mostly for fun. Electric/petrol motors were the best finds, for all
sorts of lethal self-propelled devices and vehicles. As long as the dump
bloke didn't want it for himself, it was fine.

Meanwood road does indeed have a battery recycling facility.

Speaking of which, you can recharge ordinary alkalines anyway. I have a
schematic for a simple charger, which you could build for less than the
price of the batteries. You need to be careful where you use them
though, because you can end up charging 1.5V batteries up to about 6V if
you overdo it!

(You charge them with a small AC current with a DC offset, by the way)

James



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