Recycling Batteries

[JohnD]

When most people have dead household batteries, they just throw them in the trash. This isn't the right thing to do. Spent batteries should be recycled. Look on a package of new batteries to see where to recycle them. Many companies will even send you a postage paid mailer to send your old batteries.

[tandy]

Our recycling section of the local landfill has a depository for batteries. We save ours in an empty coffee canister and then just dump them in the depository whenever we go to take our recyclables over.

[Greenerly]

That is pretty smart thing to do since batteries leak dangerous chemical that really can pollute the soil. Is there any service I can turn to and ask if they could install such depository in our town?

[Gottagetahybrid]

I'm ashamed to admit I never even thought of this. Just goes to show how much more information needs to go out to the general public. It would help quite a bit if we were all informed of issues such as these.