How To Properly Dispose of Old Batteries
Ever since I moved into this place, I’ve been stockpiling my old used batteries. What do you do with these toxic time bombs? How does one properly dispose of them? In the good old days we used to just blithely toss them into the garbage and hope some future generation of smarter humans would figure it all out. Admit it, you did. We all did. But now we know better.
Through diligent research I discovered that in Austin you can drop off your spent batteries at the Household Hazardous Waste Facility, which is open noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 7 a.m. to noon on the first Saturday of each month. The problem for me is that the Facility is in way South Austin, which, the way I drive, might as well be Africa. So I called up the Facility and found out that you can also drop off your old batteries at pretty much any Radio Shack or Batteries Plus. I took mine to the Radio Shack in the Hancock Center and simply handed them to the guy behind the counter who dropped them in the plastic tub you see in the picture above. Easy, simple, done.
Tags: battery disposal, hazardous waste