Lead-acid batteries top the heap.The lead-acid battery Noun 1. lead-acid battery - a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte; each cell generates about 2 volts lead-acid accumulator industry, with help from consumers and retailers, recycled 99.2 percent of used battery lead (or 11.7 billion pounds of lead) from 1999 to 2003, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report issued by Battery Council International (BCI BCI Bat Conservation International BCI Brain-Computer Interface BCI Business Continuity Institute BCI Business Cycle Indicators BCI Banco de Credito e Inversiones (Chilean bank) BCI Bell Canada International ), Chicago. The data confirms that the lead-acid battery remains the nation's most highly recycled consumer product, ahead of steel cans, next in line with a recycling rate of 60 percent in 2003, according to the US. EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. . "This high recycling rate for battery lead is the result of a successful collaboration among members of the battery industry, retailers and consumers," Randy Hart, president of BCI, says. "It proves that a workable infrastructure helps boost consumers' participation in recycling." Battery Council International, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. that represents the international lead-acid battery manufacturing and recycling industry, has tracked the lead recycling rate from used automotive, truck, motorcycle, marine, garden tractor, industrial and other lead-acid batteries since 1987. "The lead-acid battery recycling structure has been proven to be efficient and highly successful, and no other battery chemistry comes near the recycling rate of lead-acid batteries," Hart says. Along with the lead and plastic from used batteries, lead-acid battery recyclers also reclaim scrap lead from the production process. |
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