| Universal Waste Batteries |
Recycling discarded batteries helps keep mercury, cadmium, lead and other hazardous contaminates out of the environment. Florida law prohibits the disposal of batteries in the trash. This prohibition applies to every resident as well as every business, institutional, government, industrial, commercial, communications or medical facility in the state.
The Rule falls under Florida's Universal Waste Regulations. Clean Fuels of Florida, Inc. is a permitted Universal Waste Transporter, Handler and Transfer Facility. As such we are permitted to manage discarded batteries.
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Battery Types
Category 1 Batteries - Lead acid and sealed lead acid
Category 2 Batteries - Alkaline, nickel-cadmium, zinc air, carbon zinc (non mercury), nickel metal hydride and lithium ion
Category 3 Batteries - Mercury oxide, button cells, silver oxide, mercury containing alkaline
Category 4 Batteries - Lithium metal
We are currently working on an on-line guide to help you easily identify the various battery categories together with a guide on safe handling, transportation and disposal. Check back soon.
In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy to help find the answers you are looking for.
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Regulation:
The following is an excerpt from the Florida Statutes and can be read in it’s entirety by following this link:
403.7192(3) F.S.
(3)(a) A person may not knowingly place in a mixed solid waste stream a dry cell battery that uses a mercuric oxide electrode or a product containing such a battery, and that was purchased for use or used by a consumer or by a government, industrial, communications, or medical facility that is a conditionally exempt small quantity generator of hazardous waste under 40 C.F.R. s. 261.5.
(b) A person may not knowingly place in a mixed solid waste stream a rechargeable battery, or a product containing such a rechargeable battery, which was purchased for use or used by a consumer or by a government, industrial, commercial, communications, or medical facility that is a conditionally exempt small quantity generator of hazardous waste under 40 C.F.R. s. 261.5.
(c) Each government, industrial, commercial, communications, or medical facility shall collect and segregate its batteries to which the prohibitions in paragraphs (a) and (b) apply and send each segregated collection of batteries back to a collection site designated by the manufacturer or distributor in the case of mercuric oxide batteries, to a collection site designated by a marketer or cell manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, or the products powered by nonremovable batteries, or to a facility permitted to dispose of those batteries.
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