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What is the best way to dispose of dead batteries?

What's the best way to dispose of used batteries (not car batteries)?

  • there's no recycling center near me that takes more than paper and aluminum.

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    This is one of those 'hmmm, there must be a way' questions. If you are committed to making a difference by doing the right thing, you can: 1. Save these items in a secure container and encourage your neighbors to do the same. If you can secure enough, the recycling company will even send a truck to pick up a ton or more (they need them as raw material for their recovery and re-manufacturing). 2. If you travel to other communities you can take them with you and integrate them into the recycling streams in that community. If you know a neighbor that travels or someone visits you from another center, you can ask a favor of them. Make sure you trust them to deliver rather than throw them in their trash. Once you establish your connection, encourage your neighbors to contribute as well. 3. Have the local school investigate using them as a fund raiser by contacting the recyclers. If the whole community gets involved, the recycler will send one of their trucks to pick them up for sure. Even one of the parents properly equipped with a truck, may volunteer to transport these to the recycler. A small donation from the source or even rebate from government is possible. Hope you keep on. I have local recyclers where I live and we have done all of these things. Bear in mind that these materials are worth millions of dollars in quantity if you find the source.

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In the garbage can or out the window when you are driving to work.

Rick J

I'm surprised there isn't. What do people in your city do with old paint and other hazardous materials?

hipp5

Not sure how big your town/city is.. but our city has a battery recycling/collection day once or twice a year. Check with local recycling facility or trash pick up facility.. they may have information on what you can do with your batteries. You may not know what they do with them after you make an attempt to reccyle but my feeling is that you are at least doing "your part" to try and recycle.

Christina

Save them. Then raise hell with your local government. They should be establishing proper disposal for harmful products or should not let those products be sold in their community. That includes computers and TV's and well as oils, chemicals and pesticides. Unless you like to drink that stuff in you water.

paul

I take them to work and trade them for new ones. They recycles them and I get my batteries for free.

Uncle Dud

Toss them in the trash. Since no municipality anywhere can be bothered to provide reasonable access to recycling these, it must not be a big deal in any way whatsoever. Seriously. You may not know this but something like 90%+ of "recycled" items end up in the landfill with very few exceptions (tires, used motor oil). What is the point. Individuals are interested in recycling, but municipalities are not. Government is not. They give the idea lip service but refuse, absolutely refuse to follow through with behavior. Individuals can only do things like bring them to special places for recycling. But, what is the damn point, when governments smile, pat you on the head, then throw it in with the general waste? Best case scenario. You have a "special" battery like from a laptop, to throw away. So you mail it off to a computer seller who promises to dispose of it for you. They ship it off to china where it ends up in one of their cities that specializes in that sort of thing. They scrape off something valuable like the gold contacts. Then toss the rest in a landfill. Unlike a safe, regulated, american landfill, this one is located in the middle of town or something, next to the water supply....so your battery now poisons some poor children.....nice. By the way, who do you think is working 20 hours a day, scraping off that gold, then gets 4 hours to sleep in the corner in their own filth.....those children. Recycling is a big old scamola. It shouldn't be but, what can you do.

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