See a Battery, Pick It Up

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See a battery, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck. Especially if you take the battery that you found and safely recycle it, keeping dangerous toxic poisons out of our seas and drinking water.

I found this used battery near the ocean in Pacifica, right across from our friend Rick’s Salada Beach Cafe. It has since been safely recycled, and kept from polluting our waterways.

Our oceans are already turning into acid. We have to start today to try to make things better. Keeping one more toxic battery or piece of plastic out of our oceans, collectively, will make a difference. Once you start looking, you may be really surprised just how many “disposable” batteries litter our streets and sewers. Next time you see one, pick it up; what you do matters.

Where to Recycle Everything in SF

For everyone who is fortunate enough to live in San Francisco, the Department of the Environment has created the SF Environment EcoFinder to help its residents find out how to reuse and recycle most materials much more easily. This simple online guide can help you discover where to safely recycle nearly everything, from used cooking grease to toner cartridges, including where to properly recycle that rusty old battery.

The next time you see an old battery on the ground, please pick it up and safely recycle it.

Find Where to Recycle in Your Neighborhood

To find out where to recycle locally in your neighborhood go to: earth911.com. Just type in your zip code, and which materials you want to recycle; you then will be directed to all of the recycling locations that are nearest you.

You may be surprised at what you notice when you start looking where you are walking. I encountered this recently while strolling down Mission Street in San Francisco.