What's the real recycling rate?

The Battery Council International claims: "the recycling rate for the years 1999 - 2003 is 99.2%."
Peter Hurley argues: "Of the 4.6 million tonnes used to make batteries every year world-wide only 3.5 million tonnes gets recycled [76%]." My problem is I don't know where the other 1.1 million tonnes goes.

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