Dead batteries - Honestly, what do you do with them?

[hmmhmmcamo]

[RedMileDJ]

Garbage. But I'm sure someone representing Captain Planet, or the hippies, will come in here and correct me.

[CaptainCrunch]

Huck em at baseball players

[Locke]

Chuck 'em at Santa.

I got coal last year, you jerk!

[NomNomNom]

Leave them in the drawer, forget about them - then months later assume they're working batteries, put them in my remotes and be confused as hell as to why said remotes aren't working.

Repeat

[Hack&Lube]

I put them into the battery recycling/disposal bin at work.

Somebody could just be chucking that into the regular garbage at the end of each month, I don't know

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ

Garbage. But I'm sure someone representing Captain Planet, or the hippies, will come in here and correct me.

I'll be both.

Apparently most people are still tossing them in the trash:
http://www.auma.ca/live/MuniLink/Com...contentId=9271

I'm fortunate that my workplace has a dead battery recycling bin. Then again, as the Captain Planet representative, I have very, very few single-use batteries.

Calgary's green guide:
http://www.greencalgary.org/images/u...Recycle_GC.pdf

According to that, single-use batteries can be turned in at Ikea and "Community Natural Foods".

[BloodFetish]

We use a lot at work and they were thrown out. I started collection bin and once in a while I take them to either a recycling depot in my district, or to London Drugs.

Took people a little while to come around, but I'm pretty sure now I get maybe 75% of them recycled.

[Caged Great]

I use rechargeable ones and don't own many products that have batteries.

[Flamesfan74]

I work at a Rona /Totem store and we have a battery recycling program in place. Just bring them in to any of the stores and we will recycling them for you.

[gottabekd]

Alkaline batteries go in the garbage. My understanding is there really isn't much in the way of recycling programs that actually deal with alkaline batteries, because there isn't much to recover/recycle. So I always wonder with all these people being careful to recycle their dead Duracells, if the whole lot ends up in the dump anyway.

http://www.calgary.ca/UEP/WRS/Pages/..._directory.pdf

Non-rechargeable alkaline and household batteries can be thrown out with your regular
residential garbage.

http://www.duracell.com/en-US/batter...-disposal.jspx
http://www.energizer.com/learning-ce...yDisposal.aspx

Rechargeable or other battery types I'll hold on to and recycle.

[Tyler]

You can take them to a Throw & Go at any City landfill for disposal.

[keenan87]

I eat them. Batteries for breakfast, lunch and dinner

[sclitheroe]

It's only rechargeable batteries of any chemistry (LiIon, NiMH, lead-acid, etc) that should be recycled (and of those, the NiMH ones are not particularly harmful to the environment, a big advance over the older NiCd batteries that contained cadmium).

Alkalines are safe to throw in the garbage and there is really little to no metal to be recovered from them - they are designed to be relatively safe for the environment chemically; removal of mercury from their chemistry was a big step in making them safe to dispose.

[bc-chris]

toss them in the garbage. but we don't go thru many at all over the course of a year

4 remotes with 2AA batteries... they get replaced maybe once every year and a half or so
flames clock - 1AA battery... usually 2x per year
cordless mouse - 2AA batteries... replace 6x per year

[puckluck2]

Throw them in the garbage.

[topfiverecords]

Best Buy has a recycling deposit at the entrance.

[DuffMan]

recycle them.

[edn88]

Recycle

[onetwo_threefour]

I am my work's battery/recycling bin...
I get everybody to bring them to me then every couple of months I stop in at Ikea and dump them in the recycling bin there. Adding my work ones to home ones makes it seem slightly less pointless.