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Chatham Township Battery Recycling Requirements Chatham Township’s household batteries and printer/toner cartridge recycle program is proving to be vey successful. These new Township services, initiated by the Chatham Township Environmental Commission, are a free and convenient way for Chatham Township residents to reduce waste. All household rechargeable and non-rechargeable batteries are recycled through Toxco Inc's Big Green Box program. These include Alkaline, NiCd, NiMh, Lead, Silver, Mercury, Lithium batteries. Because rechargeable/dry-cell batteries can short circuit and catch fire while being transported, the DOT requires enclosing each hazardous rechargeable/dry-cell battery in a plastic bag or covering its terminals with tape prior to transport. To comply with this law we ask all residents to tape the battery terminals of all rechargeable batteries. Cartridge World in New Providence will be managing the recycling and reuse of all inkjet and other printer cartridges. Both batteries and printer cartridges can be recycled in the shed at the Township’s Tanglewood Lane Recycling Depot located at the foot of Tanglewood Lane off of Fairmount Avenue. The Tanglewood Depot is open on Tuesdays from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and on Saturdays from 8:00am-12 noon. There is a second collection box for printer cartridges in the lobby of the Township Municipal Building. By recycling your batteries and printer cartridges, you keep heavy metals and chemicals out of the landfills where they can pose health, safety, and environmental threats. Automotive batteries cannot be accepted and should be taken to your gas station for recycling. Some batteries contain more toxins than others. Rechargeable batteries contain such a high level of heavy metals that they are classified as household hazardous waste. Rechargeable batteries contain nickel, cadmium, mercury, lead, silver and lithium, and it is illegal to throw them in your regular household trash. Before the new Township battery recycling program, the only public option was to take rechargeable batteries to one of Morris County’s “Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Day” events. (See www.mcmua.com/hazardouswaste/HHWDisposalDays.htm)
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