Battery Recycling Program reaches milestone

FALLBROOK — Keep Fallbrook Clean and Green’s community program for recycling household dry cell batteries recently reached a milestone by sending its first shipment of used batteries collected in Fallbrook to the Battery Solutions Processing Site. The recycling program had expected to collect three 55-gallon drums of spent batteries by the end of a six-month period, but the three drums were filled to overflowing by the end of the fourth month. Response to the recycling program in Fallbrook has been enthusiastic and constant.

The program consists of multiple collections sites throughout Fallbro...