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Easy Way to Recycle Your Batteries!

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We encounter piles of household alkaline batteries all the time when we're working with clients of our organizing business. Last night, during an errand, we were delighted to discover where folks can now bring old batteries for recycling...

 
 

Whole Foods! (At least the Whole Foods in Brighton, MA.) The Stoughton Ikea also has a battery recycling bin but not everyone makes it to Stoughton. A while ago we blogged about Whole Foods providing plastic bag recycling. Last night, we also noticed that they've added a cell phone recycling bin.

Have you found any other local sources for recycling old batteries?

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pretty much any battery store.. ?

posted by antimatt on February 25th 2009 at 1:24pm
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do the whole foods in nyc do this?

posted by k in ditmas on February 25th 2009 at 1:35pm
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ikea has a battery drop off as well as a flourescent bulb drop off.

Unfortunately we now live far from any ikea or whole foods.

posted by wc_canuck on February 25th 2009 at 1:37pm
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Best Buy now recycles electronics.
In DC, you can recycle CFLs at Greater Goods, on U St.

posted by Pixie on February 25th 2009 at 2:08pm
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Our local library.

posted by arroyo on February 25th 2009 at 2:47pm
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Radioshack takes them too.

posted by gayatri on February 25th 2009 at 2:55pm
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My town dump has a bin.

posted by leepert on February 26th 2009 at 8:14am
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The Whole Foods I shop at do this (River St., Prospect St., Alewife locations in Cambridge), fwiw.

posted by ace on February 26th 2009 at 9:06am
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