The Town of Gananoque is encouraging everyone to not put their household batteries out with their garbage as they are hazardous.
Locally a couple of places in town are accepting batteries for recycling.
Canadian Tire and Home Hardware are now accepting re-chargeable and single use batteries weighing 5kg or less each.
A list of accepted batteries can be found below.
• Alkaline
• Lithium Primary
• Lithium Ion
• Nickel Cadmium
• Small Sealed Lead Aid
• Nickel Metal Hydride
• Nickel Zinc
(By: Tim Baltz)