Funny I don't come here much and today I find this thread. I just got about 1,000 mixed AA and 880 nib nimh AA's, for free .

There is a place in my district that recycles all one use cameras. They have trailer loads of batts they send off to a recycler. They are around 85-90 % charged.

They give batts to use firefighters for free. I have used these batts for years, must be dozens of brands, while i never really "tested" them I never really noticed to much differance.

Don't know why they had nib nimh , but they had a few skids of them .