Battery Disposal

[JGoodish]

Are there any convenient options generally available for the disposal of old Gill batteries? Will the chain auto parts stores take them?


Thanks,
JKG

 

[Clip4]

If you take them to a place that buys used batteries they will buy them.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

My local auto shop gets a few bucks for them; but some refuse them.

 

[JOhnH]

This article is for Florida, buy it has some good advice.

https://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/q.../shw/batteries/Battery-Fact-Sheet_09Dec15.pdf

or try
http://www.earth911.org/

Put "car batteries" in the search box and enter your zip code.

 

[flyingron]

When I lived up in northern virginia, our recycling center took them (had a whole area for lead-acid batteries). Down here is more difficult, but you might try one of the batteries R us type places and see if they'll take it.

 

[pmanton]

My local NAPA store gives me 6 bucks

 

[Stewartb]

Drop it off at Batteries Plus.

 

[Zeldman]

Put it in your neighbors trash can.....

 

[GlennAB1]

Put it in a Wal-Mart shopping cart, wheel it back to the automotive desk, and walk away, forgetting why you came in the store

 

[denverpilot]

Put it in a Wal-Mart shopping cart, wheel it back to the automotive desk, and walk away, forgetting why you came in the store

Heck, our Walmart store is happy to take them without the ruse. They also collect used motor oil.

 

[GlennAB1]

Heck, our Walmart store is happy to take them without the ruse. They also collect used motor oil.

I usually frequent Wal-Mart late at night, after the auto department has closed.

You had no problem with the idea of placing it in a neighbors trash?

 

[denverpilot]

I usually frequent Wal-Mart late at night, after that auto department has closed.

Ahh. Makes sense. With the motor oil thing it's a daytime visit, but I usually avoid the entire rest of the store by going in the open automotive side door that way. Once auto closes they don't do oil drop offs. Obviously I'm there more often for oil than batteries. Have a big container though that'll hold a lot of oil. I forget what it holds but it'll hold a bunch more than the diesel pickup which is 11 quarts.

That annoys me mildly and should be in the pet peeve thread. Even with needing a little more than 11 to fill the filter, it won't quite hold 12. If Dodge would have made it hold 12 then you'd not have a quart left over out of three gallon sized jugs. They should have just made it hold three gallons after filling the filter.

 

[PaulMillner]

O'Reilly Auto gave me a $5 store credit for mine.

 

[GaryV]

I take mine to a local scrap yard. They pay $10 to $15 for them

Gary

 

[PaulS]

Find the nearest cull de sac and toss it out there when no one is looking, that's with the **** for brains people do around us. Unintended consequence of charging people to throw stuff out.

 

[Zeldman]

Find the nearest cull de sac and toss it out there when no one is looking, that's with the **** for brains people do around us. Unintended consequence of charging people to throw stuff out.

Yep, I used to live on a cul-de-sac. In town. And people still dumped stuff at the end. Then the drunks would come do donuts in the cul-de-sac at 3am.