This is my first batch of batteries collected from our neighborhood and church. I'm glad these batteries won't end up in landfills and can be recycled/reused.

When we did the collection in our neighborhood, we send email to a community group distribution list. We told our neighbors about the battery project, the collection time and asked them to put the batteries outside their front door. Most neighbors were pretty cooperative and put their batteries out. However one gentleman asked us to knock his door to get the batteries. So we went there and knocked the door, but nobody answered. A few hours later, we went there again and knocked the door. Again nobody answered although the car was on the driveway. The same thing happened the third time we went there. It was the fourth time when the door was finally opened by an old gentleman. To my surprise, he handed me a big box of batteries. The rough estimate was at least two hundreds. Whew! Thank God, all the effort was not in vain. 

From these experiences, I got to know that there are really great need for this service. A lot of people do want to preserve the environment and wan to recycle used batteries. But they don't know how to do that.