{"id":2764,"date":"2011-12-07T12:45:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/fyi-rechargeable-battery-disposal-banned-in-new-york-state\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:45:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:45:37","slug":"fyi-rechargeable-battery-disposal-banned-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/fyi-rechargeable-battery-disposal-banned-in-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI: Rechargeable Battery Disposal Banned in New York State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NYS Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act\u00a0 requires manufacturers of covered rechargeable batteries to collect and recycle rechargeable \u00a0batteries statewide\u00a0at no cost to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Most rechargeable batteries contain toxic metals that can be released into the environment when improperly disposed. Since June 2011, consumers have been able to return\u00a0old rechargeable batteries to retail stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trash disposal of rechargeable batteries is against the law; this disposal provision just went into effect on Dec 5, 2011. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/chemical\/72065.html\">http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/chemical\/72065.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:45:37 +0000 by\u00a0p.watt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The NYS Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act\u00a0 requires manufacturers of covered rechargeable batteries to collect and recycle rechargeable \u00a0batteries statewide\u00a0at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}