How do you dispose of a car battery?

8 replies

Elf1981 · 30/04/2006 19:43

just changed my battery in the car as the old one died, not sure how to get rid of the old one though! DH thinks you have to pay but I dont know where to take it.
Any suggestions?

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Mercy · 30/04/2006 19:48

Leave in the street like everyone else!

No, seriously phone your local council first and see waht they advise. You may only have to take it to a special recycling depot (at least I think that's what happens where I live) and it 'should' be free.

poppy101 · 30/04/2006 19:49

Take it along to your local dump the guys there should direct you to a special place at the dump to leave them.

lou33 · 30/04/2006 19:50

you have to take it to a local tip, but only some of them will take it, so call and check first

Original poster

Elf1981 · 01/05/2006 08:27

Thanks all :)

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LadyTophamHatt · 01/05/2006 08:37

LOL...I was going to say leave in the street, perferably in a darkened alley way.

But see Mercy had thought along those line already.

cece · 01/05/2006 08:43

Local dump I would think

scienceteacher · 01/05/2006 08:45

Our local dump, errmm "amenity site" takes them. They don't go in with all the rest of the rubbish.

intergalacticwalrus · 01/05/2006 08:46

Deffo ring the council. We can put car batteries in out weekly kerbside collection, where we can also put, along with the usual paper and glass, clothes, shoes, and bizzarrely, spectacles. If your LA had an arrangement like this, it would save alot of pissing about, becuase if you are anything like me, you resent spending 2 hours queueing for a space at the local refuse site.

Flip