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Originally Posted by sanddrag

I own at least 8 NiCd batteries and I've never had a single one cause harm to me or the environment. Are you talking about when they are disposed of? If so, what can 1100 little batterypacks, that are each at a minimum of a few miles apart, do to a whole world of an environment? If we are talking about ALL NiCd batteries (not just in FIRST), then you may have a point if there are studies to back it up.

I am talking about all NiCds and cadmium in general. FIRST may not be affecting the environment on it's own, but neither does a car. However, if you use cars for lots of things you get tons of pollution. For cadmium's toxicity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium
http://risk.lsd.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/cadmium.shtml
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/cadmium.html