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Recycle Batteries for Free @ Bunnings

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Recycle Batteries for Free @ Bunnings
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deanmoriarty on 03/03/2022 - 19:33 bunnings.com.au (1441 clicks)
Last edited 03/03/2022 - 22:35 by 1 other user

With Bunnings’ national battery recycling program, people can safely recycle their used batteries & give them a new lease on life.

Our battery recycling units are designed to accept household single use and rechargeable batteries, such as:

  • AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, 6V
  • Power tool batteries
  • Button cell batteries
  • Other handheld sized batteries that fit into the collection unit slot

We cannot accept mobile phone batteries, laptop or TV batteries, lead acid batteries, car batteries, products with embedded batteries or other batteries that do not fit into the battery collection unit slot. For safety reasons, we also cannot accept damaged, leaking, or dismantled batteries.

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Comments

  • KRiSX on 03/03/2022 - 21:20

    I'll take 2! Oh wait…

  • shabaka on 03/03/2022 - 21:29
    +1

    I think it's a deal. you can give batteries for free and not screw the environment

    alternative is send them to landfill for free and screw the environment

    screwed environment is much more expensive to deal with in the long run, so deal

    • odysseus on 04/03/2022 - 00:12

      Nobody's saying it isn't a good thing or a worthwhile service. That doesn't make it a "deal/bargain".

      I may as well post a listing saying "Free books to borrow, at your local library" which is the same sort of thing.

      • shabaka on 04/03/2022 - 07:26
        -2

        It is for me, so argument invalid

  • lost in transit on 03/03/2022 - 21:30
    +1

    People get into the habit of just binning batteries at home.
    Even as a reminder it’s a good post imo…

  • ash460 on 03/03/2022 - 21:32
    -5

    Throwing mine in the bin has not killed a bin chicken at the tip yet

  • Herbse on 03/03/2022 - 21:33

    Finally. I usually go to aldi but their bins are always full or not out.
    Always thought it was stupid somewhere like Bunnings didn't take batteries.

    Thanks for the heads up.

  • Brrrrt on 03/03/2022 - 21:47

    just keeping farming your upvotes whatever man.

    not.a.deal

  • Thrifty Dan on 03/03/2022 - 21:52
    -1

    You can recycle batteries at nearly every post office or council office. No deal!

  • Lucille Bluth on 03/03/2022 - 21:54
    +1

    If Bunnings or any of these retailers cared this much about landfill and the environment why not just stop selling disposable batteries all together so it wouldn't contribute to the issue they are trying to fix?

  • Suspect420 on 03/03/2022 - 21:56

    Let me know when they take car batteries

  • GoIdDigger on 03/03/2022 - 21:59

    This will save our family hundreds this year!

  • thisisscotts on 03/03/2022 - 22:04

    That ratio though…

  • subywagon on 03/03/2022 - 22:06
    -6

    Free? I can already recycle the for free in the ocean.

  • duluxe2000 on 03/03/2022 - 22:38

    Does anyone know how and where can I dispose phone and motorcycle batteries ?

  • Scollk on 03/03/2022 - 22:47
    +1

    People are pretty salty about deals hey… I think this is good information, thank you. I didn't realised bunnings took batteries and it's convenient for me

    • Jpo on 04/03/2022 - 10:36

      Same, thanks OP

  • plague69 on 03/03/2022 - 23:05

    How is this a deal?

  • dealsniper on 03/03/2022 - 23:07

    Where to recycle led light globes?

  • decc0 on 03/03/2022 - 23:16
    +3

    OP, idea for your next deal. Free kerbsides collections each year. Maybe make each council a separate post to further maximise your upvote farming

    • shoppe on 03/03/2022 - 23:31
      +2

      OP, your next deal, recycle
      - oil at SCA;
      - car tyres for only $5;
      - coffee cups at 7 eleven.

      • deanmoriarty on 04/03/2022 - 00:19

        Legend

        • Lucille Bluth on 04/03/2022 - 08:58

          Maybe also a seperate deal on food courts in shopping centres that have bins with a hole that seperates waste from items that can be recycled?

          Don't give deal upvote farmers ideas!

          • LFO on 04/03/2022 - 13:44
            +1

            @Lucille Bluth:

            Maybe also a separate deal on food courts in shopping centres

            And don't forget EVERY single household with a council recycling bin!!!

            Amazing there is still something left to recycle.

    • magic8ballgag on 04/03/2022 - 16:20
      -1

      To suggest OP is doing this for positive votes is ridiculous. What do they have to gain from it?

      • decc0 on 04/03/2022 - 16:29

        Virtual internet points and cred. It seems ridiculous to you and me because it is but to some it's everything.

        • xoom on 04/03/2022 - 16:30

          cough influencers cough

      • giventofly on 04/03/2022 - 17:49
        +1

        What do you have to gain from privately messaging abusive messages and then blocking the person from replying?

        https://imgur.com/a/zsHZMNl

  • Laziofogna on 04/03/2022 - 01:03
    +1

    Is there some kind of reward for posting anything on OzBargain? Why this rush of nothingness?

    • xoom on 04/03/2022 - 03:11

      Is there some kind of reward for posting anything on OzBargain?

      For the street cred.

  • virtualsid on 04/03/2022 - 07:41

    How is this a ‘bargain’.

  • loginid on 04/03/2022 - 07:59

    Have never down voted anything, but I don't think this should be posted as a deal or even a freebie.

  • ilikedeals on 04/03/2022 - 08:12

    I am about to post a deal "Free mobile phone/printer cartridge recycling at various drop-off centres" please up-vote and hopefully it will make it to the front page!

    Oh damn someone beat me to it https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/686436 (also made it to the front page..)

  • Astronaut Joe on 04/03/2022 - 09:43

    Only a deal if you can scavenge for mistakenly binned eneloops.

  • Jpo on 04/03/2022 - 10:35

    What can be done with damaged/leaking batteries?

    • xoom on 04/03/2022 - 11:00

      You can hand it in to these recyclers and they do just that. Recycle them.

  • pineapple12 on 04/03/2022 - 11:50

    You can recycle batteries at aldi too. Lmao

  • Sapiens on 04/03/2022 - 11:55

    I'm all for these recycling programs but this is OzBulletin board

  • giventofly on 04/03/2022 - 12:44

    OzAnnoucments

    It's free at my kids school, too.

  • Borris on 04/03/2022 - 13:29

    looking for dealzzz

  • LFO on 04/03/2022 - 13:40

    What I reaaaaaally really would like to know is how and how much recycling is done from those batteries.

  • deanmoriarty on 04/03/2022 - 13:46
    +1

    For the down voters:
    It is estimated that 18,6001 tonnes of batteries are discarded to landfill in Australia annually. All batteries are hazardous to some degree and it is important Australia can safely and responsibly dispose of batteries.

    It’s a definite problem. Whilst not a bargain, there’s no harm in being reminded about recycling. Glad that it’s triggered a dialogue & clarified ‘where to recycle what’ for a majority. We are fortunate to have a lot of avenues to recycle, & reminding this infrastructure exists is beneficial. Besides, upvotes cudnt be encashed LTIC

  • Peck on 04/03/2022 - 14:01

    I must have been living under a rock, because I didn't know that all of the places in the comments take batteries.
    Thanks OP for the alert!

  • cwangv on 04/03/2022 - 15:12

    Most of the time the bin is over flowing any way.

  • magic8ballgag on 04/03/2022 - 16:24

    I find it amusing that most of the people negatively voting don't contribute to the website by submtting deals, yet are usually the first to ask: "where's the deal?"

  • Duckbringer on 05/03/2022 - 08:38

    Where's the value here? 10c for an aluminium can, nothing for a battery? Doesn't seem like a deal to me.

  • McMuffin on 06/03/2022 - 12:27

    Can us loser teenagers chuck in our vapes???

  • Headless on 09/03/2022 - 11:50

    Belongs in the forums - plus its about time Bunnings copied Officeworks and Aldi who have been doing this for years -Officeworks even takes bulbs! (and local councils)

  • nige0090 on 28/03/2022 - 11:40

    Bunnings Chatswood refused to take my used AA/AAA cells. "We don't do that"

  • CampbelltownSkipBins on 14/05/2024 - 11:59

    We also collect used batteries and metals in our skip bins. With the aim to recycle what we can when it arrives in our yard. https://www.rubbish.com.au/scrap-metal-skip-bin-hire/

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