New Household Battery Recycling Collection Procedures

Please place tape over contact points on ALL household batteries before recycling.

The US Department of Transportation has issued a new household battery collection procedure of placing tape over the contact points of all batteries in hopes of preventing truck fires while batteries are in transit. For more information on the reason for this change in collection procedure, please refer to this advisory letter from the US Department of Transportation.

Date Last Modified: 02/27/2013