In other words, it's really not very practical to run a car using standard household batteries.

In addition to promising to install this equipment, the city has started a recycling program to encourage residents to separate household batteries from their garbage.

Learn the 5 ways you can extend the life of household batteries.

Let's start with a look at how household batteries function.

From the outside it looks like the common household batteries in use today for the most part.

Would require the reduction or elimination of mercury in most types of household batteries.

Rhode Island is also starting a pilot program for recycling household batteries.

When you've acquired a meter, you can try checking out a few household batteries.

"Battery manufacturers have been working for quite some time to reduce the mercury content of common household batteries."

Americans now consume 2.7 billion of these household batteries a year.