I had about a dozen batteries I was collecting that I was going to rip out the terminals and scrap the bodies...when I got around to it. My son-in-law came by one day to do a little clean-up and assumed I wanted them gone, so without telling me he recycled them.
He got nearly $200 for the bunch. That's equivalent to about 200# of lead scrap if purchased from the same recycler, and the battery terminals would only have been about 20#, so as it turns out, he had the right idea.
I still hassle him about it though...
