moyse macauley

Perhaps. In thinking further about this- the transportation, storage and charging may put this outside of profitability. I know that on the subject batteries in my post the recycling was around $75k. Contractors like the fast turn on their money so this may be a hard sale to them.

Getting batteries from telephone companies is probably thing of the past as the EPA is requiring death certificates from the smelter on this class of user.

I consult with a company that liquidates assets of companies that are relocating or have gone out of business. Primarily I deal with the standby plants (APU, batteries, rectifiers and inverters). After a project last December involving the removal of 500 flooded lead acid batteries, I wondered if there was an alternate market for these batteries other than recycling. I do not remember the capacity of these cells but I believe somewhere around 1600amp/hr. Anyway these batteries were less than 5yrs old and on the two I tested with a Midtronic were at 90% or better. We also removed 6 cabinets (40 cell each) of VRLA batteries approx. 100amp/hr. If there is a market for these used cells I will suggest to the contractors to start listing.