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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...
It ain't all burritos and strippers my friends...
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No. I don�t think you should even think of it! Car batteries contain toxic chemicals and playing with them can be anything but safe. If you want to recycle car batteries, just take them down to a scrap recycling facility like the Sims scrap yard in Jersey City. I came to know of them after I read about their gun buyback program here. They do accept automobile parts, so recycling your car battery would be a good idea!
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Campfire Outfitter
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The risk is the generation of a deadly compound known as stibine. It's a bad deal and best avoided.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Campfire Ranger
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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... I just took a few batteries to a scrap yard. I should've taken them to the local Autozone instead as they pay about $10 each and the scrap yard only paid 5 cents a pound.  I did make out pretty well with a couple hundred pounds of scrap copper I took back, though, leaving the yard with a check for nearly $500. 
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan.
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Yeah dont be melting them car batteries down, it'll change your family tree.
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