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

[Pavementworrier]

Sims removed but otherwise just as they were

I'd been keeping of them to "destroy securely" but they're driving me insane around the house so enough was enough

Will I get digitally kidnapped now? They were really old and shit phones.

If your organisation is selling or supplying more than 32kg of portable batteries a year then it has to accept waste batteries and arrange for them to be recycled.

I'm not sure where OP is but just in case:
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25757661.bin-lorry-fire-west-berkshire-caused-batteries

Its definitely the law. According to this, collection of the batteries is free. https://www.gov.uk/battery-waste-supplier-reponsibilities

Co Op is a complicated company, it is divided into regions that are interconnected via two umbrella organisations FRTS & Co-Operatives UK, yet legally separate companies, and many branches are franchisees, therefore still independent shops.
Our village Co-Op falls under Southern Co Op but is an independent franchise
If they sell less than 4 AA a day, which is quite conceivable, they don't have to offer the service.

How much more often than 'infrequently' do you have so many batteries you can't possibly just keep them in a container until you do go?

sometimes the collectors don't do what they should, or the tip Fuchs it up. Report to the council. Don't throw your hands in the air & complain it's 'just too haaaard'.

Come on now.

you & your neighbours can take turns or each take a type to take on (my neighbour takes our 'soft plastics' & I take our empty pill packets (between the two households we have lots) & we both take batteries. Usually getting the others to take with us when convenient.

So there you go
for some self centred reason you think you have less time and energy than everyone else
no, just laziness

Our local recycling centre burned down and they suspect lithium batteries for either phones or laptops.

Our very small Scotmid Co-op definitely has a bin right at the door.

That's really an awful thing to have done. Items like that must be disposed of in a particular way and the metals etc removed for recycling etc.

Cables and anything electrical must be disposed of properly, it's a legal requirement and moral responsibility.

if you are able to access a supermarket for shopping, you are able to access a box for battery recycling. Larger electrical items have to go to special section of the tip, although I believe electrical stores take them and you can also get the colkected by the Council in many places, for a small fee.

I do the vast majority of my supermarket shopping online. I haven’t done a big shop in store since early 2020.

My occasional visits to larger stores are almost always spur of the moment while already out and about.

I will check out the little Tesco near me to see if they have a box. From what I have read here it is company policy although I haven’t noticed one.

To be fair I use very few batteries since my son has been at Uni.

Wrong!!
my local doesn’t have one!

No!!
it does have Facebook pages where people ask questions on about things like this!!

People have asked, which is why we know that they don’t have any where i live 🤣🤣

Sure.

Every day is a school day as they say
Is it though? It doesn’t sound like absorbing information or being observant are your strong points.

Just how did you think batteries worked? Magic? Did your school not teach chemistry?

What about geography? Nothing coming to mind about minerals in the earths surface?

@PavementworrierDo you even keep up with current affairs? Trump (the president of the United States of America, just in case this too has passed you by) is interested in Greenland, any ideas why?

You clearly have a smartphone, a world of information in your pocket, and yet throughout this thread you have taken great pride in your own ignorance. What a waste of a brain.

Ok!
so some jumped up know it all on the internet knows more about what the store has than the actual store itself 🤣🤣
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I thought it was only large supermarkets and retailers like Curry's that had battery boxes, our Asda and Waitrose has them but I wouldn't expect one in an express store.

I am sorry but you just aren't convincing as a clever person.

The irony.

This makes me really worried about planes and the batteries on them.

You should have recycled the phones

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Local rubbish tip (special box)

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Some supermarkets have a recycle box

it has nothing to do with the size of the store. If they sell more than the weight equivalent of 4 AA batteries a day, they must offer a recycling facility.

This is what Tesco say about their policy:

"Recycling your batteries

Tesco is part of a compliance scheme and offers battery-recycling points at Express, Metro, Superstore, and Extra stores. In 2020, 566.57 tons of batteries were collected in Tesco stores.
You can recycle all household batteries at our recycling points, including AAA, AA, C , D, 9 volt, button and those from appliances such as mobile phones, laptops, hearing aids, watches, cameras, cordless power tools, electric toothbrushes, razors, toys, burglar alarms, and hand-held vacuum cleaners.
Lead acid batteries from cars are not suitable for instore recycling points."

Our approach to managing waste from our UK operations

Unless your Tesco is not an Express, Metro, Superstore or Extra store*, you should ask the manager why they aren't following Tesco's own published policy

'* I don't have a local Tesco so no idea if there is another type of Tesco store, but 5 seems like plenty to me

I'm sure someone else has already pointed this out, but to repeat, every single battery except the little coin shaped ones carries the symbol of a dustbin with an 'X' through it, indicating it must not be binned. So does battery packaging. So do mobile phones.