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The difference is that a bunch of trinkets have lithium batteries in them and are very difficult to remove, whereas it's mostly vehicles that use lead acid batteries and they're designed to be easily removed. Also you tend to replace lead acid batteries and continue to use the product while with lithium you tend to throw out the product when the battery is dead. This combination makes recycling much more difficult, although I'm sure you'll be able to catch most of this with general electronics recycling.


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