People in the UK, does your kerbside recycling accept (some) batteries?
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@neil we have a dedicated battery bag for household batteries, such as AAA, AA, B, C, D, DD and 9V batteries
Everything else goes via the tip
@neil Nope, but did double check and hard to find any useful info from Southwark. Thankfully all of the supermarkets, and their smaller versions, all have battery recycling bins.
@neil we take ours to Curry's or Tesco which both have battery drop-offs. We're in Cambridge.
@neil yes, in their own untied bag within one of the boxes (but I generally take them to the dedicated battery boxes in Aldi or Lidl).
@neil Greater Manchester:
"You can take batteries to a recycling centre.
Regular household batteries can also be recycled at most supermarkets or electrical stores."
Given that every household surely has them, and disposing of them incorrectly causes huge problems, I'm always confused there's not a home collection for them; yet I'm equally surprised to hear there actually is in some places!
@neil No, but a couple of the local big supermarkets do
@neil
Kind of, maybe. They say it doesn't but that you can leave them in a small bag tied to the bin handle. Which the binmen will, of course, ignore.
@neil They did, then they didn't, now they apparently do again.
"D, C, AA, AAA, 9V,
button, rechargeable, mobile, ipod
and hearing aid batteries [...]
also recycle laptop and power tool
batteries but can't accept car or
other industrial batteries.
We do not accept E-cigarette batteries."
I box mine up and take them to the tip, usually.
@neil Can't put them in the kerbside recycling bin. But, there is a collection point at the local Community Recycling Centre
@neil I take mine to the bin at the office.
I don't know, we save them up and take them to the battery-recycling bins at the supermarket
@neil used to take them in the black box with the glass but about a year or two ago they stopped as not enough people using that facility and supermarkets and any other shop that sells batteries have to take them for recycling, so less need to accept them kerbside.
@neil we have to take ours to the dump.
Ours - West Berkshire - takes:
D
C
AA
AAA
AAAA (1.5-volt)
A23 (12-volt)
PP3 (9-volt)
CR2032 (3-volt)
LR44 (1.5-volt)
hearing aid batteries, as long as they are removed from the device
@neil ours did until earlier this year; now we have to take them to the tip. There's a big box they all go in - I'm always pleased it's far away from anything else, and staffed!
