What happened to the batteries collected?

Most are already fully recycled today.
With NiCd and button batteries, there are no longer any problems.
A major problem, however, are the mercury batteries still on the market, because current processing machines can only process 100% mercury-free batteries.
Since the production and thus sale of batteries containing mercury has been stopped for several years, this problem can be expected to solve itself soon.

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