To have thrown a bunch of smashed up old mobile phones in the bin

Shit me, that's not right is it?
Why don't they tell people that? I have literally never seen that written anywhere. Not saying they're not there but I have never seen that ever.

Where I live people are too busy to read peanut packets. We just have one big communal peanut packet outside our building and all help ourselves. It's one of the serious benefits of living where I do. Why isn't there a big sticker on the massive packet?

I cannot believe that most people know peanuts contain peanuts.

Is there legislation about peanuts being in peanuts? Links please.

These should be recycled in Small Electrical's at your local tip

That's what we are told, but last week I left a bag of batteries and small electrical items on top of the recycling bin as we are supposed to do (they put them in a special cupboard in the bin lorry to go to e-waste), and by chance I looked out the window and saw the bin man chuck the whole bag inside the wheelie bin and then empty it into the wagon. So clearly they aren't too worried about fires.

I was a bit lazy about recycling batteries until I read the stats on the number of fires started due to poor waste disposal, now i'm meticulous about proper recycling. I think a lot of people are like the old me and just don't realise how bad a risk it really is.

bertie apologies, I retract the bashing with a hammer comment. Do not try this!

The phones and tablets I put in electrical recycling have always been smashed up by my child with SEN.

In all honestly I think it's funny that you're spoofing a thread about a legal requirement in the United Kingdom that has serious consequences and are wasting people's time who are well-meaning. You are indeed small, Brenda.

I did know you shouldn't bin batteries which means I have loads of dead batteries hanging around my house. You want complicated recycling OP, I raise you empty paint tins.

In all honesty, I think it’s funny how you’re so invested in other people’s lives!!!

You shouldn't put them in the bin. Electronics need to be recycled separately.

And Warwickshire

We can put batteries in a small bag next to our bin and they get collected by the bin men.
All very easy.
Maybe check if you can do the same.

U and people like u are why is wrong with the world. Not a bit of fucks given for the Earth, the environment or the people and animals in it x

Im not sure what I can say to that other than you must be supremely unaware unless you never actually go into shops

As pretty much every other poster has said you are very unreasonable not to know that battery recycling is a thing

Thinly? I would say a layer of gloss!

I'm shocked at the fact that in 2026, someone doesn't know about the correct disposal of batteries, and the thinly veiled glee behind the OP's posts is disconcerting.

Croydon

We’ve just had a reminder re waste disposal from our council - apparently we had 6 bin lorry fires last year from electrical items in our council area alone. However they do collect batteries - we just need to put them in a small clear plastic bag on top of the wheely bin when we put it out for collection. And small electrical items in carrier bags will also be taken.

I can only assume from this thread that you’re extremely unobservant.

Local authorities can issue fixed penalties of up to £400 for breaches of waste bin rules under Section 46A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

perhaps @Pavementworrier could now atone for his or her ( i did laugh out loud when i saw a PP ask if this was a man) sins by making a poster to explain the dangers/ stupidity of tossing batteries & electricals in the normal bin, and sticking it up next to their big communal bins, just in case anyone else who uses them is as clueless?

For anyone else claiming not to have known about this being a problem up till now (despite living in the same world as the rest of us, being literate and having access to the internet), why not use this new year as a chance to learn & change what YOU do in future?!

And if you know anyone who uses vapes, please make sure they understand why they need to be disposed of properly too...

😂😂😂

Yes and a sign on bags of peanuts stating that they contain peanuts.

The gnashing of teeth came from the glibness of the OP - it is fairly annoying when someone receives information and just goes: Tra la la, I'm still not doing it.

Talking of kegels. I do enjoy the acronym for "Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment" though

All distributors must:

• offer free takeback on WEEE
• accept WEEE for free from customers supplied with like-for-like products, regardless of whether this is done in store, online or by mail order
• retain a record of all WEEE taken back for at least four years
• provide customers access to written information on the service provided and what they should do with their WEEE

So you never leave your village, or know anyone who leaves your village, or anyone else who could help who visits supermarkets/libraries/pharmacies? If you have no physical way of recycling your batteries and no way of finding anyone to help you then please call your council and they will advise. Surely this is obvious though?