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

[SunnyD]

I recharge them. NiMH batteries FTW!

 

[Yeem]

Put in trash with other waste

63 86.30% Take all batteries to collection point

10 13.70%



This makes me sad. Everyone expects someone else to care for the environment...🙁

The saddest part is that I'm with the majority on this one.

 

[zinfamous]

This. I put my old batteries up zin's bum.

KT

What, what?
In zin's butt?

:hmm: this would help to explain a few "issues" that I've been having recently.

 

[PottedMeat]

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

...hmm I should check local recycling places if they do that. I see dead car batteries on the side of the road all the time around here, especially near gas drilling sites.




I've got a box of dead alkalines. Once in a while I'll take one apart - some are completely dry and easy to disassemble, others are seem like they have gas buildup and ooze/hiss. One day they may go in a fire :awe:.

 

[Jeff7]

Throw them at punks driving their PWC with rooster tails close enough to spray me! 😛

Could I send you some lead acid batteries for the cause?

 

[ecom]

This makes me sad. Everyone expects someone else to care for the environment...🙁

The saddest part is that I'm with the majority on this one.

Perhaps if it were as easy to recycle the batteries as they are to purchase. The only collection facility that I know of is the city dump's hazmat facility. That's 7 miles away and easily a 20-30 minute drive away plus a fee for each vehicle load.

 

[Squisher]

Home Depot has two recycle bins near the entrance, one for re-chargeables and another for CFL bulbs.

 

[StageLeft]

Trash trash trash. I recycle what can go in the curb. I'd feel frankly a bit stupid recycling things like batteries while I keep a large house heated in the winter and cooled in the summer and water a lawn. I know I'm a big resource user (like most people in the West). And if you don't like it, I drive a Prius, so stfu, although I drive that not to reduce carbon use but simply because I got a great deal on it. I figure it buys me a few batteries in landfills. Or not. Tragedy of the commons strikes again.

 

[Rubycon]

Could I send you some lead acid batteries for the cause?

Only if they're of the Gates Cyclon variety up to BC size. Forget SLAs as they are too big and heavy to toss. An exception would be the older 3Ah 2.2V "Chloride" brand used in exit signs. Oh and those pathetic EaglePicher ones - those are worthy of hitting channel buoys while leaving the Hudson River. (just kidding of course!) 😛

 

[JTsyo]

My office has a collection bin. That's where I take them.

this

 

[Ksyder]

dropped them off at Radio Shack for recycling.

 

[Kelemvor]

Standard AA, AAA, etc I just throw away.
Bigger ones like laptop batteries I take somewhere.

 

[IronWing]

I throw them at homeless people.

 

[Raizinman]

I only purchase the Duracell. I regularly change the batteries in important devices such as Smoke Detectors, Garage Door openers, and TV remotes on a once a year basis. I just throw out the old batteries. Just as I didn't believe the global warming, I also don't believe that this battery is going to cause any problem in a landfill or where ever it ends up. Bigger batteries such as lawn and garden, motorcycle, ATV, are turned in if needed as an exchange when purchasing a new battery. Otherwise, it goes in the trash. I'm not going to carry around a leaky acid battery in my Mercedes. My trash guy takes anything, but I do tip him nicely around Christmas. Wonder if he would take the wife?

 

[sonicdrummer20]

I save up a big bag of em and huck em at concerts.

 

[nerp]

'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.

My city does this. It's included in our tax bills. It's amazing how a community with municipal trash, recycling and yard waste pick up with its own city composting facility can make for a community with a major lack of trash and debris everywhere. When the city will haul your rotting old furniture and cans of paint away, there's less incentive to dump them in a vacant lot or leave them on the side of the highway.

 

[Farang]

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

I respect boldness.

 

[fatpat268]

I throw them in a coffee can and take them to be recycled about once every 2 years or so.

Mostly, though, I use NiMH batteries.

 

[meltdown75]

i put them in cakes

 

[JoPh]

the trash

 

[JM Aggie08]

I'm not a fruit so I just throw them away.

 

[x-alki]

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! 😱

Thank you for making my day (or at least a portion of it).

 

[oogabooga]

I throw away some bad AA's. I'm bad 🙁

But most I keep in the same place as good batteries so I live an exciting "how long will these last" game each time I put in 'fresh' batteries.

 

[Modelworks]

I take them apart for the graphite rods

 

[spidey07]

I take them apart for the graphite rods

Just how much hydrogen are you trying to make?