According to the New York Times, lead that's being recycled for car batteries is poisoning people. Reporting by the Times shows that automakers are contracting with companies to recycle lead in ...

West Nyack, N.Y.-based C & A Carbone first made headlines in the early 1990s when the recycling company took its case against the flow control law in Clarkstown, N.Y., to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...

Never before have so many cities actually wanted the material accumulated by their citizens and hauled by local services. And some municipalities are enacting flow control ordinances to ensure this ...

While the US auto industry touts battery recycling as an environmental success story, Nigeria’s booming lead-recycling hubs reveal a grim, poisonous underbelly ...

The spent batteries Americans turn in for recycling are increasingly being sent to Mexico, where their lead is often extracted by crude methods that are illegal in the United States, exposing plant ...

The widespread use of lead-acid batteries in cars, industries, and power backup applications generates a steady and reliable flow of batteries that have reached the end of their lifespan. The presence ...

OGIJO, Nigeria – Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- According to MarketsandMarkets, "Lead Acid Battery Recycling Market by Source (Automotive, Industrial, and Consumer & Electronic Appliance) and Region ...