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recycling center - battery disposal

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  • 22-04-2013 9:45pm
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    i have a few batteries to get rid of, anyone know if there's any recycling center near/in town that will take them?


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    iano.p
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    If they are small batteries lidl take them there is blue box's behind the tills at the window you can put them on


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    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    Are they car batteries that you have to get rid of Sir Digby?


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    nah, torch batteries. 2-3 times the width of a normal AA. ill keep an eye out for the recycling boxes in shops


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    Queen-Mise
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    nah, torch batteries. 2-3 times the width of a normal AA. ill keep an eye out for the recycling boxes in shops

    I remember seeing the blue boxes but can't remember where I saw them. ;) That was a remarkably helpful comment:o

    If they were car batteries, my neighbour collects them for the dump, I would probably have collected them off you.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    don't have a car :) if I was over burdened with car batteries that'd be a strange state of affairs


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    Queen-Mise
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    don't have a car :) if I was over burdened with car batteries that'd be a strange state of affairs

    You could be a collector. Stranger things have happened.


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    Morf
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    I've seen them in Aldi and in Superquinn. Both on the way out I think.


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    slimjimmc
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    Seems you can just bring them for free to any retailer that sells the same type of battery, and there's no obligation to buy.

    http://www.weeeireland.ie/consumers.htm
    Consumers can bring used batteries and accumulators to Retailers free of charge as long as the batteries and accumulators are of equivalent type available to purchase from the premises. There is no requirement for a purchase to be made.

    Retailers may limit any one consumer to 5kgs of battery returns at any one time and may refuse to accept any waste portable battery leaking any of its constituent materials.

    Consumers can also bring their used batteries and accumulators to their local Civic Amenity centres for recycling free of charge.


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