Seattle
Keep them out of the regular bins.
Seattle offers special pickup for intact household batteries. Collection conditions apply.
For the things you’re done with.
Before you
throw it out.
The battery in the drawer. The paint in the garage.
Find out where it goes, right where you live.
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Two cities.
Their own ways.
Recycling and disposal change at the city line. Start with the place that collects your waste.
What this guide coversA useful distinctionSame battery.
Same battery.
Different answer.
These guides are for identified, intact household alkaline batteries. Size alone doesn’t tell you the chemistry.
How we check an answerNew York City
Household trash is allowed.
DSNY permits intact alkaline batteries in household trash. Other battery types have different rules.
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