Optima Battery

[JFP in PA]

Thanks to the EPA, lithium based SLI batteries have a major downside: Recycling. Because lithium, unlike nickel metal hydride, is even more insidious than lead in the environment, SLI usage has to be tracked "cradle to grave". Only problem is that lithium also poisons lead recycling smelters, so they cannot be handled through the existing, and very limited, lead battery recycling networks. This problem has prevented the expansion of lithium usage in commercial batteries for nearly two decades, and will continue for the foreseeable future as no one is building new battery recycling facilities in North America due to their "environmental nightmare" problems. That alone will continue to stifle its growth and reduction in price for a long time to come.....

[eightsandaces]

Where they tossing the energizers or the Kodak Ultralife batteries?

Both made from the same lithium, granted it's less a problem than if all batteries were LiF but someone is processing them somewhere. Either that or they are at the ocean bottom or some third world country in a pile...

[JFP in PA]

Actually, small lithium batteries are a lot different than a flooded style SLI lithium unit; but if you read small lithium battery packaging, they state that, like compact fluorescent lights, they should not be discarded into residential trash, but "disposed of at appropriate recycling center"; only problem is finding one............