Drop your dead batteries at the shops
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Drop your dead batteries at the shops

Tape the ends, pocket the jar, find the B-cycle bin on your next shop.

15-25 minutes

Why This Matters

Batteries never belong in a household bin. Crushed in the truck they spark fires; buried in landfill they corrode into soil and water, and their nickel, steel and lithium are lost.

The jar in the drawer

Where do the flat batteries pile up at your place? Next time you’re at the shops, they go with you.

Before you go

Put a bit of clear sticky tape over each battery’s terminals: both ends of an AA, the two contacts on top of a 9V, and button cells wrapped all over. Batteries touching each other in a pocket can spark, so a glass jar is the safest carrier. Phone and laptop batteries stay with the device; they have their own drop-offs.

How to do this

  1. Tape the terminals and jar them up.
  2. Find a B-cycle bin nearby, usually Aldi, Coles, Woolies or Bunnings.
  3. Tip them in on your way past. Done.
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