Battery recycling

DB_SamX · 15 Sep 2006 at 19:44

I have a number of AA and AAA used batteries that I have been collecting over the months. Does anyone know where I can recycle or do anything else with them instead of throwing them away?

Nothing particularly useful online apart from a site charging me 85c per battery and is in the USA! :eek:

Any ideas?

I have found this btw, maybe some of you could find the forum useful for free stuff. http://www.recycle.co.uk/

Werewolf · 15 Sep 2006 at 20:35

Your local tip probably has a bin especially for dead batteries these days, our tip recently (past 6 months or so) started having a bin specifically for normal consumer batteries (AAA's, PP3's, C's, D's, etc) next to the containers for car type batteries.

Puzzled · 15 Sep 2006 at 20:38

Wow, people actually bother to recycle them!

I just chuck em straight in the bin, can't say I've ever seen a place that takes them.

Werewolf · 15 Sep 2006 at 20:39

i don't normally recycle them (i tend to use rechargables), but now I know the local tip does recycle them i've got a bag in the garage that i'm trying to remember to put them in

qwerty · 15 Sep 2006 at 21:21

They've got big boxes on the streets in spain for recycling batteries. You just throw them in.

www.easyjet.com

Jono · 15 Sep 2006 at 21:56

Ikea haev big recycling boxes

D.P. · 15 Sep 2006 at 22:22

Outside some supermakets they can be recycled (like wise with cell phones). Some recycle points as well.

Car batteries its fun to collect the suphuric acid (you never know if some chavs come around and you need to re-fill your supersoaker) and collect the lead which can then be sold or turned into fishing weights, or sold to people to make into fishing weights, or sold to people bot to turn into fishing weights...

+ it can make interesting stains on your patio

DB_SamX · 16 Sep 2006 at 01:53

Thanks, I'll check out the local tip, although I don't know how local mine is.