used to have a place that took them. Now they want a hefty price.

Do you just toss?

What kind of batteries? Lithium? Nicad? Car/truck, equipment, AA's?

Does this link help?

How to dispose of batteries

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.

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.

General household type batteries. I am not going to list them out. not car batteries.

Battery plus used to take them. now they want big bucks.

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.

Thanks guys.

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.

Yep, trash. Exactly as ryan81986 said.

Our dump - oops, transfer station - has a 5 gallon sheetrock pail to toss them in, gratis.

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

Local Interstate Batteries Store here takes them. Last time I took some in was last year.

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."

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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.