Specialist recycling
Specialist recycling
Never put batteries inside any of your bins as they get damaged by the crusher inside the lorry and cause fires.
All types of small portable household battery (for example AA, C, D, or button) can be put in a small, tied plastic bag and placed on top of your blue, green or black bin lid for kerbside collection. On occasions when the battery container on the bin lorry is full, we cannot collect the batteries. If this is the case, please wait until the following week.
There are also collection points in all major retailers that sell batteries, including supermarkets, service stations and electrical shops. If you share large bins, for example in a bin store at flats, please use these collection points instead of leaving batteries on the bins.
Electric bike batteries can be recycled at some bike shops – check with your local shop. Halfords accepts electric bike batteries for recycling free of charge, and some are registered with the Velorim scheme (which does charge).
Power tool batteries can be recycled at large shops that sell them, for example Screwfix.
You can find locations for recycling batteries on the recycle your electricals website.
Household recycling centres
Household recycling centres
Larger batteries from electric bikes and scooters, and motorcycles and cars must be taken to the large household recycling centres for safe recycling.
Never put batteries in your bins as they get damaged and cause fires. In particular electric bike batteries have caused numerous fires inside bin lorries and at the recycling sorting facility in our area over recent years due to being place into bins incorrectly.
You can also take your smaller portable household batteries to the household recycling centres for recycling if you wish.