What price do you get per KG for old car batteries these days? Think its lead inside them if im right?

 

i got 289 for 30 batterys the other day but all hgv ones

 

i get around £6 for you small to average size car battery

 

40p per kg. A car battery works out at just under £5 each working on an average weight of 12kg

 

i'm creating a stockade of VOLVO HGV batteries at work... think i have about 30 now... trouble is getting them to scrapyard!! lol

 

would you get more if you smash them and take the lead out? obviosly wearing correct hand protection etc........

 

Not quite sure if this is true or not but years ago i was told that the lead in the batteries is not a very high grade, could be wrong but i'm sure that's what i was told.

 

afaik you get more for taking out the acid BUT dont do that and pour it in the countryside

let them take it and do something propper with it

ive got quite a few here now, hmmm

 

My current pile is 10 strong. I could do with some hgv ones

 

You don't get any more for taking out either the lead or acid. They go to a battery recycling plant that re generizes the acid and sells it back to the battery industry. They also recycle the plastic as that has a decent value these days. Nothing is wasted.

 

Price is dependent on where you are.
I get 75p per kg on lead
Batteries is slightly less.
Prices have gone down recently so it might be worth hanging on to them till the price goes back up.

 

Are you for real?

 

Lead price isn't brilliant at moment, batteries are still very strong. A few years ago, you couldn't even give them away.

 

I am a scrap metal merchant, I had a load of copper stock piled. When I went to weigh it in I found out copper dropped from 4500 to 2500. Horrified isn't the word for it.
I'm in the southwest so my prices will always be lower.
I can get a better price if I take it up north.

 

I dabble in a bit of scrap myself.
www.thomasmetals.co.uk Also based in the south west.

 

dya like daaargs

 

I almost cried, Thought he was taking the piss at first!

 

I got 90p per KG for lead a couple of weeks ago

 

Just round the corner from me in Yeovil then, I work over on Pen Mill and live near Lynx Trading Estate.

Got a couple of HGV batteries to bring over some time, hopefully get a few drinks in with the proceeds

 

you know what takes the piss, i think we have to pay on average 3 quid a battery to have a licenced company turn up and collect a 3 bins of around 60 batteries a time as we need to prove we dispose of them in the correct manor with paperwork of a company who recycle them ect and all they do is sell the batteries on for more cash and they turn up every few weeks for a large batch and ALL garages and main dealers are tied into this rule or we get a fine

same with oil too, we have to pay to have that taken out aswell

we had a technican at work caught recently as he was nicking 10 old batteries every 2 days and weighing them in, he was being sensible(ish) and not taking too many,,,, it was the company who collects them who flagged it up as they never got a call for 3 months as the waste bins never got filled up

 

if your company wants to weigh the batteries in and get paid for them legally. The proper way to do it would be to get a waste carriers license. This costs about £100 and lasts 3 years. Issued by the environment agency and available on line. You would then have to fill out a duty of care consignment note if you are transporting more than 3 batteries at a time. This is because batteries are classed as hazardous waste. If you're getting as many batteries as you say you are, Then it would be a no brainer.

 

I've got a few old car batteries to get rid of in the near future. Where accepts them - is the council refuse centres / dumps, or scrap yards?

Cheers

 

How long ago was this?

 

Scrap yards / scrap metal merchants if you want to make money.

Dumps / Council recycling centres if you don't

 

Nice one - off to the scrappy they go

 

Doesnt sound to bad a idea to me

 

you would have to be in desperate need of a small amount of money to spend time smashing up old batterys to get maybe a extra couple quid on each one.

 

You get about £7-10 for a normal car battery depending on the price of scrap. I save them up along with my other scrap then take them in!