Recycling Car Batteries

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Can I recycle car batteries?

Yes, some recycling centres will take car batteries. There are also other places where you can recycle them.

How should I recycle car batteries?

Car batteries, by law, must not be disposed of with household waste.

They are collected at garages, scrap metal facilities and many civic amenity and recycling centres.
Sometimes the specialist who replaces your battery will be able to dispose of the old one safely for you.

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Recycling Lives offers good Corporate Social Responsibility.

Recycling Lives operates nationally to provide a wide range of recycling activities to Local Authorities, commercial organisations and the public. Recycling Lives provides housing, training and long term employment in the recycling sector, to people who would otherwise be homeless; including ex-armed forces personnel, probation and those from chaotic backgrounds.

Each Recycling Lives centre provides up to 48 quality en-suite rooms; training and office facilities; incubator units for entrepreneurs in social enterprise; industrial space for our recycling processes and retail space to sell good manufactured by Recycling Lives from recycled waste.

We do not ask for, or rely on 'gifts' from you, as we always pay fair prices for scrap metal recycling, plastic and other recyclables. By selling your waste to Recycling Lives your organisation helps us to be sustainable and you to show good corporate social responsibility.

Our social enterprise 'manages' good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on your behalf, by ensuring that our recycling activities are carried out by employees that would otherwise be marginalised or even forgotten by society.

What does Recycling Lives Recycle?

Aerosols |
Asbestos |
Batteries |
Beverage Cartons |
Bicycles |
Books |
Bricks and Building Rubble |
Car Batteries |
Cardboard Boxes |
Carpets |
Carrier Bags |
Christmas Trees |
Clinical Waste |
Clothes |
Compact Discs (CDs) Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) |
Computers |
Cooking Oil |
Drinks Cans |
Egg Shells |
Engine Oil |
Envelopes |
Fire Extinguishers |
Food Waste |
Furniture |
Garden waste |
Gas Bottles |
Glass |
Greetings cards |
Hearing Aids |
Keys |
Light Bulbs |
Magazines |
Milk bottles |
Mobile Phones |
Musical Instruments |
Nappies |
Paint |
Paper |
Plasterboard |
Plastic bottles |
Printer Cartridges |
Shoes |
Shredded Paper |
Spectacles |
Stamps |
Televisions and monitors |
Textiles |
Tin foil |
Toys |
Tyres |
Video cassettes |
White goods |
Wood |
Wrapping Paper |
Yellow Pages |
Yogurt Pots |