This is the first public battery recycling point I’ve seen in China – and guess which city it was in?

Not Beijing, not Shanghai, but…beautiful Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, home of spicy and numbing food!

The dark side of this story is that Chengdu apparently doesn’t have the technology and resources to actually recycle these batteries, so they are being stored in warehouse purgatory, patiently awaiting a day in the future when they can be reincarnated or perhaps reach battery nirvana.

Similar problems plague battery collection programs in Tianjin and Beijing, as well as collection programs for other toxic products such as CFLs.   If you know of any economically viable recycling technologies that can be brought over to China, please leave me a comment or send an email.  We’ll make millions!