Speaking of batteries...
I don't want to hijack the other battery thread...they're getting deep into AGM's, etc. My Bigfoot batteries are 8 year old deep cycle Interstates, group 24, traditional flooded plates. They gotta be ...
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LanceDuyen wrote:
Since Trojan moved smelting operations to Mexico I have been buying all East Penn batteries from Batteries Plus Bulbs.
Not quite as rosy as you may think and definitely not a winner for Mexico:
Most American consumers are accustomed to turning in their spent car batteries when buying new ones, pleased to take part in a successful recycling program but unaware of how it takes place.
“There’s a good chance that your battery will be recycled at a plant with far inferior pollution controls than in the U.S.,” said Perry Gottesfeld, executive director of a San Francisco-based advocacy group Occupational Knowledge International.
Canada’s standards are also lower than in the United States, but not nearly as lax as those of Mexico.
“Raising the bar is what it’s all about,” said Irasema Coronado, the executive director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the trilateral NAFTA board, adding that she hopes the three nations “are able to harmonize how they are going to deal with these batteries.”
“I do reiterate that all of us who own a car in North America own this problem,” she said.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24747133.html#storylink=cpy
