What's the scrap value of a battery?

naff all I'd expect.

Although I don't know the answer, I'd hazard a guess at "Not as much as you might think". Modern car batteries don't contain nearly as much lead as they used to; the plates are much thinner and are often contained in something (not sure what, I'm just going by what I had to clean up after my recent fire in which there were a dozen or so batteries).

The top scrap money is in copper now. You'll spot the plumbers in their new cars...

Someone told me a while ago that if you get loads and loads of car batteries, put them on a pallet, get it down to the scrappies somehow, then the scrappy might give you £30 if you unload it yourself.

Basically the gist was that the lead in batteries is valuable, but getting rid of the other things that are in a car battery responsibly is quite expensive and generally not worth the effort. My local council tip takes them.

If you've got one battery, forget it. Rates change from area to area. Where I live, scrap batteries are currently fetching £25.00 per tonne. Allow 80 batteries per tonne and you get the picture.

Steve

almost not worth taking in. a boot full is only a few quid.

In article , mrcheerful . writes

Copper is where the money is these days. The scrotes round here are now leaving the lead on the church roof, but are nicking the lightning conductor instead!....

they will prolly charge you for taking it, we have to pay waste disposal on our old batteries.

Local council tips usually dispose of them for free though. Just ask them when you go there and they're usually put to one side.

peter

I once asked a garage if they had any dead batteries and they gave me one free.

bizarrely enough not if you are a trader, likewise you need a licence to take them to the scrappies if you are a trader, no wonder so much is dumped all over the place.

If you have the room though, it is worth putting heavy scrap in a heap, radiators, ally, batteries catalytic converters and copper all on one side till you have a van load then run it all in together. It makes a nice little bonus every few months. Feels good to recycle too. People do call you Steptoe on a regular basis though.

mrcheerful

What did you want it for? (Just nosy ;-)

In article , naked_draughtsman writes

Milton does, took some there at the weekend...

To cut up. Wanted just one cell to power the glow plug on a model plane engine.

That's fair enough then - pretty likely to be only one cell *really* dead and any of the others would be OK. Tricky to find a charger for it though, I would have thought?

If u cannot afford a battery then surely you cannot afford to run a motor vehicle including insurance and maintenance

No they let me test several batteries. I picked one that had gone open circuit. Most of the cells were ok.

No problem as you use constant voltage (with a current limit) for lead acid - most bench supplies can do it.

Ah well, if you know enough to have a bench supply instead of a collection of wallwarts then charging almost anything is easy ;-)

My local scrap dudes pay a few quid per battery, or did last year. They also gave me =A312 for a peugeot 205 rear axle and anti roll bar.

My local scrap dudes pay a few quid per battery, or did last year. They also gave me £12 for a peugeot 205 rear axle and anti roll bar.

A few quid *per battery*???? I want to know where they are.

Steve

Yes, batteries are chargeable items.