{"id":115560,"date":"2020-11-07T04:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/study-finds-nearly-100-percent-recycling-rate-for-lead-batteries"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:52:20","slug":"study-finds-nearly-100-percent-recycling-rate-for-lead-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/study-finds-nearly-100-percent-recycling-rate-for-lead-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Study finds nearly 100 percent recycling rate for lead batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-nearly-100-percent-recycling-rate-for-lead-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/batterycouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battery Council International (BCI)<\/a>, Chicago, and <a href=\"https:\/\/essentialenergyeveryday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Essential Energy Everyday<\/a> have released a <a href=\"https:\/\/essentialenergyeveryday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BCI_201212-17_RecyclingRate_Study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> showing lead batteries have a recycling rate of 99.3 percent, making them the No. 1 recycled consumer product in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The groups say the near-perfect rate of recycling is attributed to industry investment in a closed loop collection and recycling system that keeps 1.7 million tons of batteries out of landfills annually.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/essentialenergyeveryday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BCI_201212-17_RecyclingRate_Study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National Recycling Rate Study<\/a>, released in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/americarecyclesday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">America Recycles Day<\/a> Nov. 15, 2017, demonstrates the sustainability of lead batteries and their role in environmentally friendly energy storage for automotive and industrial applications, say the organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery Council International (BCI), Chicago, and Essential Energy Everyday have released a study showing lead batteries have a recycling rate of 99.3 percent, making them the No. 1 recycled consumer product in the U.S. The groups say the near-perfect rate of recycling is attributed to industry investment in a closed loop collection and recycling system [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}