All of the home depots I have visited also take rechargeable batteries for recycling, though some have signs that they donât take alkalines. The bins are usually next to or behind customer service, if not they are near one of the exits/entrances. Bins are orange, usually with a roll of clear plastic bags attached to put your batteries in - with lithium ions, it is a good idea to tape them and/or bag them to keep them from shorting out/catching fire before tossing them in the bin.
Thanks for asking rather than just trashing the bad cells.
Youâre a hero to your local trash handlers, who risk injury from this sort of thing in the trash.
Just got home. Even had a beautiful young woman assist/direct me to the proper bins at Lowes!
Everything is back in order! Glad I have another place even though I had to drive 12 total miles instead of 2 miles[Radio Shack/Staples] where I use to go.
I was determined NOT to throw these in the trash. I taped the ends, then bundled a few together w/ tape and then taped the zip lock baggy so it looked like a protected battery pack!!
Before I started this thread, when I was researching, I did come across those trash truck fires where people threw the batteries in their trash,resulting in those fires.
Maybe, or maybe a benefit for landfills? I used to live in a small town where the local dump would âmysteriouslyâ burn every time it got near full capacity. Town officials were all very shocked by this, and always promised to look into it when the ministry of the environment would ask what was going on, but they assured them it was probably local kids.
I think you might just be running into idiot employees that have no idea and are trained to say no instead of yes [to whatever] so there isnât angry people showing up to the store for something that really doesnât exist⌠Rather be wrong in that way than say yes and that be the wrong answer ya know.
Iâve called some local stores (home depot and Lowes) and they say no but thereâs a clearly labeled battery deposit box out front. Often these battery recycling boxes are maintained not by the location theyâre in but by the actual company doing the recycling and in those cases it makes sense the phone answering employee doesnât know whatâs up.
Have you actually went to any of the big box home improvement stores in your area? I donât know of a single one around here who doesnât take batteries for recycling.
Here in Aust.
The local dumps have a Battery recycle station in every one Iâve been to.
I go there for my Laptop Battery packs. One of the crew says âhelp yourselfâ Most of the others say. Once in here they dead to the public.
I often wonder what they actually DO with them???
They something similar to Nuclear Waste.
NOBODY wants them.
The way we humans going. If we donât blow it up first.
Most of the planets materials will be outside the crust instead of inside of itâŚ
And itâll implode on itself hey. Chuckle.
A big hollow ball on fire.
Hmm. Maybe not such a bad idea the way we have turned out nowadays. Everybody fighting/killing everybody else.
Bloody religion is probably the worst,
Most destructive thing ever developed by humans.
Radicals on BOTH sides. Right through the ages.
If they donât end up in a landfill somewhere, they pay for China to take them. The Chinese re-wrap them and sell them back to us to use in our flashlights.
Lithium ion batteries are not considered âtoxic wasteâ. If you want to completely kill the batteries, mix up some brine water in a bucket, toss them in and let them sit for 24hrs (outdoors), and they will be completely dead.
Itâs the billions of alkaline batteries being dumped that is the problem, not lithium ion. The lifespan of a single 18650 is like using 1200+ AA alkaline batteries. Much more environmentally sensible
According to the U.S. government, lithium ion batteries arenât an environmental hazard. âLithium Ion batteries are classified by the federal government as non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream,â says Kate Krebs at the National Recycling Coalition. While other types of batteries include toxic metals such as cadmium, the metals in lithium ion batteries - cobalt, copper, nickel and iron - are considered safe for landfills or incinerators (Interestingly enough, lithium ion batteries contain an ionic form of lithium but no lithium metal).