There are local recycling centers that will accept them in our area. I assume you are referring to car batteries. The fire departments and occasionally large employers will offer these services for the benefit of the community. I would not put them in the trash.
Posts: 17643 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015
All Home depot and Lowes and batteries plus stores have free recycle bin by the service desk for cellphone/cordless phone/rechargeable batteries and they also take all of the tool batteries ( 18v,24v,36v etc).
Car batteries can betaken to most auto stores that sell batteries,back for free.
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Posts: 709 | Location: western PA | Registered: April 03, 2011
In my area Batteries Plus still takes them. In addition, a company called Do It Best will take alkaline and lithium batteries. Might want to check and see if you have any of those around, if your Batteries Plus has priced themselves out of the recycling business.
Posts: 1241 | Location: NE Indiana | Registered: January 20, 2011
Check with your city/town/county. They may offer something to help.
For example, The City of OKC has a free hazardous waste facility. Just show your water bill and they will accept just about anything. Drive in, stay in your vehicle if you want, they'll take care of it. ForExampleLink
Posts: 12031 | Location: Near Hooker Oklahoma, closer to Slapout Oklahoma | Registered: October 26, 2009
If you want to do it "right", check with your city or county for their household hazardous waste disposal program.
Around here, you can bring it to one of the transfer stations or the landfill. The County also has one event each quarter, in different locations, where they will accept HHW at other locations. It's nice to be able to get rid of stuff "properly."
Just throw them in the trash. For 9V batteries tape over the connectors so they dont short out in the trash and cause a fire.
I also do this for all batteries. Once I put a discharged (what I thought) coin battery in my front jeans pocket with change. I felt something hot & burned my fingers getting everything out of my pocket. Usually I just put each battery in a junk mail envelope, fold it & staple it shut.
Recycling places around here were paying by the pound for lead acid batteries. I forget how much they were paying, but you could get a few bucks for a car battery.
When I buy a car battery they have a core charge to make sure you bring back the dead one
Household batteries A, AA, etc. I put dead ones ina. Ziplock bag on the counter u til it’s full and set it on top of my recycle bin on trash night. They pick up on trash morning.
