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Hazardous waste is just that – hazardous. Many states require that this type of waste is processed and disposed properly. The hazardous waste that you generate is often distinguished as household hazardous waste, or HHW, because industrial hazardous waste is handled in a different manner. Many cities have HHW facilities where you can drop off and pick up safe materials so they don’t end up in the landfill.

• Battery Recycling Jumps 900,000 Pounds in 2011

  

  In 2010, Call2Recycle®, the North American leader in consumer battery recycling, announced that battery recycling records were crushed, up 10.1 percent from 2009 to 6.7 million pounds.

  Now, they have a similar announcement, only the percentage increase is even greater – a whopping 13.1 percent increase over 2010, totaling more than 7.6 million pounds of rechargeable batteries collected for recycling.

  READ: Facts about Rechargeable Batteries 

  “We continue to focus on encouraging more consumers to recycle batteries so that we can limit the amount of virgin natural resources necessary to manufacture new ones,” said Carl Smith, CEO of Call2Recycle, in a press release. “We … read more

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