Household Batteries
Household batteries may contain toxic
metals and should never be put in your trash or blue bin. Luckily, recycling
them is easy!
Through the year, residents can drop-off household batteries at any Wegmans
in Onondaga County, at Noble Ace Hardware in Elbridge, at OCRRA’s Rock
Cut Road Transfer Station in Jamesville or OCRRA's new Community Collection Center. You may use any type of container to
drop batteries off at these locations.
During the month of July, OCRRA also teams up with local waste
haulers to do a special door-to-door battery collection. OCRRA provides residents
with highly visible orange “battery bags” and your hauler picks them
up on regular trash collection days.
To get an orange battery bag, please email us – in
the email, provide your name, address, and zip code. We’ll be happy to
mail a battery bag to you!
Simply fill the “battery bag” with your
batteries. Place the “battery bag” on top of your closed trash bag
or on top of your trash container’s lid. Please DO NOT place them inside
your trash can or trash bag nor in your blue bin.
Haulers collect batteries separately from the trash and recyclables and deposit the “battery bags” in
a special battery container, prior to unloading their trash trucks at the Waste-To-Energy
Plant. That container is then transported to the Rock Cut Road Transfer Station
where they are properly managed for recycling.
Annually, OCRRA’s battery
recycling programs collect 80,000 lbs or 40 tons of material!
Rechargable
batteries
By recycling your used rechargeable batteries, you are helping to create a
cleaner and safer environment by keeping harmful rechargeable battery by-products
out of the solid waste stream.
The following rechargeable battery chemistries can be recycled - Nickel Cadmium
(Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion), and Small Sealed
Lead* (Pb). Look for the Battery Recycling Seal on the battery.
Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion),
and Small Sealed Lead*(Pb) rechargeable batteries are commonly found in cordless
power tools, cellular and cordless phones, laptop computers and camcorders.
Rechargeable batteries may be dropped off at the following retail locations:
- Batteries Plus, 3530 Erie Boulevard, Dewitt
- Best Buy, 9090 Carousel Mall
- Home Depot, 3756 Milton Avenue, Camillus;
5814 Bridge Street, Dewitt;
7922 Brewerton Road, Cicero.
- Lowe’s, 5701 East Circle Drive, Cicero
5377 West Genesee Street, Camillus
131 Simon Drive, Syracuse
- Prime Mobile Communications, 4406 West Genesee Street
- Radio Shack, Great Northern Mall, Clay;
Seneca Mall, Liverpool
- Ramsing Electric Repairs, 914 Emerson Avenue, Syracuse
- Verizon Wireless, 5133 West Taft Road, North Syracuse
Please call to verify location still accepts batteries, prior to drop-off.
You can
also drop off rechargable batteries at OCRRA's Rock
Cut Road Transfer Station.
Car batteries
Car batteries may be returned to any dealer who sells them, regardless of
whether you bought it there or not. The following locations may even pay you
a few cents per pound for old car batteries:
- Battery World, 6581 Townline Road,
432-1778
- Bodow Recycling, 1925 Park Street, 315 422-2552
- CNY Resource Recovery, 920
Spencer Street, 315 471-0254
- Syracuse Material Recovery, 301 Peat Street, 315 476-0800
