Be honest, what do you do with your old batteries?

[Aharami]

my bi-weekly curbside recycling accepts used batteries. I save em up until I have a few, then put them in a zip-lock bag and leave it for recycling

 

[nageov3t]

:hmm:

😱

 

[BurnItDwn]

I burn them with fire.

 

[Alone]

To form habit, I don't throw out batteries under any circumstance. They go to a collection point either in my residence or at work for proper disposal.

Even seemingly dead batteries have enough charge for an IED. And I'll be damned if I'm hit with an IED made of my own shit.

 

[Rubycon]

IED made of my own shit.

Explosive diarrhea? 😱.

 

[Phoenix86]

I store them anally.

:hmm:

I don't think this has the same effect as ass pennies.

 

[Alone]

Explosive diarrhea? 😱.

I thought we've seen the worst of it, but you predict more terrible things to come.

 

[Rubycon]

I thought we've seen the worst of it, but you predict more terrible things to come.

Well when things like anal insertion of power cells is discussed along with IEDs bad things can happen. What's next putting li-poly packs in the microwave? 😱

 

[x-alki]

I sell the spent ones mine back to Walmart.

 

[SandEagle]

i donate all of my used batteries to goodwill. great tax deduction :sneaky:





i kid, i kid

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

I have a box with probably 50 batteries just sitting here. I went to the collection point and the super crazy PUT EVERYTHING IN THE RIGHT BIN nazi said to put them in the regular trash. I was confused. I looked all over, there was no place for batteries! I'd been picking them out of the trash when other people tossed them in. So here they are, just sitting in a box.

:\

 

[lokiju]

Throw them down the storm drain outside my house...

 

[Dirigible]

'Cause I live in lefty hippie tree-hugger-ville, our trash company will pick up a container of batteries on the normal trash pickup day and dispose of them properly. Easy-peasy earth-friendly-squeezy.

 

[Rubycon]

Throw them down the storm drain outside my house...

You should not do that! :thumbsdown:

Alligators can consume them! After just six duracells they can shoot plasma balls from their reptilian penis. When this occurs it's known as a six pack gator. Ask any DPW worker and they'll tell you!

Cameras over the grates aren't just for catching bowery bums peeing in public. They are concerned - greatly concerned that one day a notebook battery may wind up in the stomach of a gator. They don't even have a term for that but a pizzle that can shoot the equivalent of photon torpedos in the sewers could be devastating. Think thermonuclear manhole explosion! 😱

 

[Ruptga]

I didn't even know you were supposed to do anything special with them other than not light them on fire.

 

[DesiPower]

throw them in my recycle bin

 

[Locut0s]

We just store then until we are up to our necks in old corroding batteries leaking battery acid all over the place. Seriously we must have a hundred or more dead batteries. We don't want to throw them away because that IS bad for the environment. But so far we have been too lazy to go dispose of them properly. One day we will make one huge battery deposit.

 

[DrPizza]

In the trash they go. Dangerous ones like car/marine batteries I take to a place to handle them.

"Dangerous ones like car/marine batteries" go to the recycle place where I'm paid $5 for each one.

 

[Key West]

You know all the trash collected by the city go through 'trash sorting'. You seen those people? Massive amount of trash on conveyer belt gets sorted out by hand.

If I throw them away in trash, they'd get sorted there.

 

[Tristicus]

Put them in the trash..why would I do it any different?

 

[mk]

There's a battery collection bin at the local supermarket. Old batteries go there.

 

[Locut0s]

You know all the trash collected by the city go through 'trash sorting'. You seen those people? Massive amount of trash on conveyer belt gets sorted out by hand.

If I throw them away in trash, they'd get sorted there.

I've seen shots of those sorting lines but are you sure all the garbage that goes to the landfill gets sorted this way. I thought mostly this was garbage that gets sorted at recycling depots. If they sorted all the garbage after all they could take out all the plastic and there wouldn't be any bags or tin cans at the landfill.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Anyone remember mercury cells? Hearing aids used them. They were also flat discharge like the much more expensive silver oxide however their terminal voltage was a bit lower (1.4V) so some devices would not work...

As they discharged pure mercury was formed. Thus the seal had to be good. If you were good at opening them up you could extract this mercury with minimal effort and it was quite clean/pure! 😱 No wonder they outlawed them!

Believe it or not I do remember them. Largely because many of my old cameras call for mercury cells and it's a b*tch to find compatible replacements.

ZV

 

[shadow9d9]

I use rechargeable batteries...

 

[illusion88]

I do the same thing with batteries as I do used car oil, put them down the drain that runs into the local creek.