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From the Ted Talk by George Zaidan: Why your phone battery gets worse over time

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Even when that happens, you can bring dead bteitraes back to life— whether they’re rechargeable or not— by recycling them. The heart of most beattry recycling is a process called smelting, which is basically just melting the metallic patrs. This drives off impurities, returning metals back to their initial, orderly state.

Unfortunately, in many countries you can’t just toss household batteries in with your regalur recycling. You have to take them to a battery collection point or rielccnyg center. Same goes for more complicated rechargeable batteries: you need to bring them to a collection point or send them back to the company you bought them from.

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Even when that happens, you can bring dead _________ back to life— whether they’re rechargeable or not— by recycling them. The heart of most _______ recycling is a process called smelting, which is basically just melting the metallic _____. This drives off impurities, returning metals back to their initial, orderly state.

Unfortunately, in many countries you can’t just toss household batteries in with your _______ recycling. You have to take them to a battery collection point or _________ center. Same goes for more complicated rechargeable batteries: you need to bring them to a collection point or send them back to the company you bought them from.

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  1. battery
  2. parts
  3. recycling
  4. regular
  5. batteries

Original Text


Even when that happens, you can bring dead batteries back to life— whether they’re rechargeable or not— by recycling them. The heart of most battery recycling is a process called smelting, which is basically just melting the metallic parts. This drives off impurities, returning metals back to their initial, orderly state.

Unfortunately, in many countries you can’t just toss household batteries in with your regular recycling. You have to take them to a battery collection point or recycling center. Same goes for more complicated rechargeable batteries: you need to bring them to a collection point or send them back to the company you bought them from.

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