I wonder what the net environmental benefit of recycling batteries is, if someone has to drive 12 miles in order to do it.
Maybe the better thing to do is really just trash them?
(Yeah, I know you can recycle them only when you’re already in the area for something else.)
Not setting the local trash depot on fire probably counts as an environmental benefit 
Maybe, or maybe a benefit for landfills? I used to live in a small town where the local dump would “mysteriously” 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 isn’t angry people showing up to the store for something that really doesn’t exist… Rather be wrong in that way than say yes and that be the wrong answer ya know.
I’ve called some local stores (home depot and Lowes) and they say no but there’s a clearly labeled battery deposit box out front. Often these battery recycling boxes are maintained not by the location they’re in but by the actual company doing the recycling and in those cases it makes sense the phone answering employee doesn’t know what’s up.
Have you actually went to any of the big box home improvement stores in your area? I don’t know of a single one around here who doesn’t take batteries for recycling.
Here in Aust.
The local dumps have a Battery recycle station in every one I’ve been to.
I go there for my Laptop Battery packs. One of the crew says “help yourself” 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 don’t blow it up first.
Most of the planets materials will be outside the crust instead of inside of it…
And it’ll 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.
Maybe stop calling ahead, if they’re already recycling just leave them in the bin
Someone will take over from there.
Just my take on the bureaucracy
If they require you to pay for recycling let them figure it out after that.
If they don’t 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.
Respect roberto, many would have give in and chucked in the bin. Glad you persevered, but i would expect nothing less . Hope all is well.
Thanks…nice to see you!
What kind of dog is that on the “pet food” thread? A Cane Corso or Great Dane? 
The ultimate Re-use, part of RRR. Some sucker gets a 10,000 mAh Ultrafire battery.
Lithium ion batteries are not considered “toxic waste”. 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.
It’s 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 aren’t an environmental hazard. “Lithium Ion batteries are classified by the federal government as non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream,” 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).
Yeah.
Imagine the space and weight that it takes, and the amount of fuel used to transport it.
Sorry missed this, and you! Yes a cane corso bitch.