"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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Auto batteries have been recycled in the US for decades.
The cell construction of a car battery makes recycling
relatively straightforward. Burning the battery is just plain
stupid.

Unfortunately the slum dwellers in India never got around
to installing a state-of-the-art metal-reclamation plant.

True. But the point is that there seems to be no point in doing a botched,
inefficient job of reclaiming battery lead.


Nonetheless its a ****ty job that the countries of origin don't want to
dirty their hands with - so they dump them in a heap in an Indian slum
district and let the street urchins get on with it.