$10.9–12.9 per piece; $150–300 per ton; and $3420–36000 per piece.
$150–300 USD per ton; $120–210 USD per ton
Now let's explore whether battery acid is reusable.
As per Scientific American, only half of aluminum cans are recycled, making them not the most recycled product, or even office paper, which accounts for over 70%. It's your car's lead acid batteries. Over 99 percent of these batteries are recycled.
"Almost any retailer that sells lead-acid batteries collects used batteries for recycling, as required by most state laws," according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Reclaimers break down batteries into pieces no bigger than a nickel while separating the plastic parts. They deliver purified lead to battery manufacturers and other industries, and send the plastic to be reprocessed into new plastic products.
Lead and plastic that have been recycled make up 60–80% of the typical lead-acid battery.
As per AA, the battery recycling sector possesses multiple alternatives to handle the acid extracted from batteries. "It can be recycled into new batteries or neutralized and tested before being released into the environment. It can also be converted into sodium sulfate, a product used in fertilizer, dyes, and other products."
The majority of industries that recycle and/or manufacture batteries follow the standard procedure of neutralizing sulfuric acid and letting the heavy metals precipitate out of solution as solids.
With today's technology, it is not necessary to produce this amount of waste acid because sulfuric acid can be reused in batteries and its contaminants removed.
