What should I do to recycle batteries?

Question

I know it cant be good to have decomposing batteries in landfills.

Answer 1

Batteries are essential to our portable lifestyle. Cars, phones, music, cameras and even our daily planners make our lives convenient and instant because of power supplied by batteries. As we continue to enhance our lives with portable amenities, battery disposal is becoming an environmental challenge. A number of resources are available to reduce battery waste.

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Batteries are a unique product comprised of heavy metals and other elements that make things “portable”. These elements threaten our environment if not disposed of properly. Learn about the different batteries on the market and the importance of recycling batteries.

Help the Environment - Batteries

Find out how you can continue to help the environment by stretching the life out of your batteries and then disposing of them properly.

Helpful Links & Resources

Find additional battery information and regulation, including the 1996 Battery Act, the current battery Enforcement Alert by the U.S. EPA, how batteries are made and other online resources.

Answer 2

I find the easiest way is just to eat them.  Then you'll just flush them away!

Answer 3

well first what kind of batteries? if its car batteries take them to scrap yard they pay you for them

Answer 4

u can go to your nearest walgreens and recycle them

Answer 5

You can also drop them off at office supplie stores like Staples.

Answer 6

Most communities offer regional "hazardous waste" collection days, when you can bring batteries and other nasties to the experts and they will dispose of them for you to protect your community and the planet. We have turned in old gasoline, motor oil, paint and batteries at these events in our area.

Some recycling places will take batteries, others will not. Best to check before *driving" there ...

Answer 7

well you can turn them into your local recyleing center for free

Answer 8

You can visit www.call2recycle.org. All you have to do is type in your zip code or address and it will locate the nearest places you can take your old batteries to. Best of luck to ya!

Answer 9

Standard AA, AAA, and C, type household batteries are now made with almost no mercury and can be disposed of with normal garbage. Other household batteries, including all sizes for rechargeable batteries, however, may contain cadmium, mercury (contained in watch batteries), copper, zinc, lead, manganese, nickel and lithium (computer clock batteries). These metals may create a hazard when disposed of incorrectly. In landfillls, heavy metals have the potential to leach slowly into soil, groundwater or surface water. When burned, some heavy metals may vaporize and escape into the air or end up in ash. Dry cell batteries contribute about 88% of the total mercury and 50% of the cadmium in the municipal solid waste stream. In the past batteries accounted for nearly half of the mercury used in the United States and overhalf of the mercury and cadmium in the municipal solid waste stream. It is important to keep these potentially hazardous, heavy metals out of our waste stream and out of our soil, water and air.

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RECYCLE HERE!

Nickel Cadmium Batteries

Northwest Tool Repair, Whitefish, 862-6275.

Radio Shack, Whitefish 862-1270 or Kalispell Center Mall, 752-2346.

Radioactive, Kalispell, 257-5999.

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