Volunteers help dispose of batteries placed in Major Market recycle bin

FALLBROOK – Two volunteers with Keep Fallbrook Clean and Green (KFCG, a subsidiary of the Fallbrook Beautification Alliance or FBA) have quietly worked behind the scenes for five years to dispose of the large quantity of batteries that local residents place in the battery recycle bins at Major Market and Albertsons.

It is estimated that Morgan Cadmus and Stan Neiman, with Fallbrook Village Rotary Club, have helped safely recycle close to 400,000 old, used, and dead batteries.

Household batteries may not be thrown away in regular curb side trash or recycling containers, or even taken directly t...