UPS batteries

Wed Jul 23 13:05:18 PDT 2003

Hi All,
The Menlo Park Public Library takes drycell (flashlight)
batteries for recycling.

My employer has drop-off buckets for drycell batteries on
each floor from Battery Solutions Inc.  When the bucket is
full, we seal it with packing tape and send the problem to
Michigan.  There must be other recyclers with similar
programs.

Battery Solutions Inc.
http://www.batteryrecycling.com/
734 467-9110

-Rob

vraptor at employees.org wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>And just an FYI:
>>most car places (Kragen/Napa) should take dead batteries.  I know
>>the City of Oakland (and much of the bay) have drop off places for
>>these too.  And while we're here, Radio Shack and others take those
>>nasty laptop and cell phone batteries we want far from landfill.
> 
> 
> Home Depot also takes rechargeable batteries.  If anyone knows
> of a place that takes non-rechargeable, I'd appreciate a pointer.
> 
> 
>>While the "proper" UPS batteries fit inside nicely, you
>>could hack in a much larger battery to get the same
>>amount of power (# of amps), but for a longer period.
>>A large deep cycle battery could give your little UPS
>>enough power to last days.
> 
> 
> There is a company that hits the radio swap at Las Positas
> and the flea market at Foothill that has a wide variety of
> rechargeables, including a lot of the ones that fit smaller
> workstation-type UPS units.  Their prices are much better
> than HSC's, and they have a wider selection.
> 
> =Nadine=
> 

-- 
Rob Riley  Senior Systems Administrator, Security Engineering
Global IT, Oracle Corp.  650 506-1435 work, 650 799-1607 cell