Batteries

[MEL78]

Hi can anyone give me some advice I take all the old batteries in the house to recycle but what should I do with the ones that have already corroded should I just bag them up seperately and put them in with the others

mel

[battybird]

Thats what I did...and only thought afterwards that it might be a risk

[GeorgeSalt]

I'm pretty sure that all types of battery are taken by the recyclers.

The ones to watch are the small lithium button batteries. Wrap a bit of sellotape around these before putting them into the box you use to store them before taking for recycling - because of their design they can short in contact with each other and I know at least one reclycling company issued an instruction to do this.

[MEL78]

do you mean the watch type ones

[GeorgeSalt]

Yes. The flat, disk-shaped, button-like buttons.