scrap batteries?

mmidlam · Aug 19, 2014

I just took a load of old car and tractor batteries in. They would not take them if the cases were badly damaged. Is this standard practice or would a different yard take them?

Sprint 6 · Aug 19, 2014

I sell them to the local Interstate dealer. I get $10 a piece. Scrap yards around me don't take batteries at all.

2x4 · Aug 19, 2014

not standard. They don't want the plastic anyway. It's the lead they're after. Find other buyers. I get $8 apiece.

d9gdon · Aug 19, 2014

They probably don't want the environmental hassle of spilled battery acid.

They're 20 cents a pound at the scrap yard here.

Steve in VA · Aug 20, 2014

Here in Virginia, my scrapers pay 9$ each and have taken them with smashed cases. As said, they're after the lead.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 20, 2014

Where I live, prices vary and so do pratices. Some places won't mess with batteries, some places rip you off and others will take batteries even if they have been smashed and in a fire and pay good prices. JUST CALL AROUND.

Casey in Ky · Aug 20, 2014

Funny you should mention that. I work for a utility company and we've got several remote sites that have batteries for backup power service. Thieves have stolen almost all of these batteries, some that are quite expensive. So somebody is buying them, even if the sheriffs office can't who is. In some cases they've stolen a couple of strings of batteries, 8 total, that cost about $2400, just to get around $10 a piece out of them. I hate a thief, especially dumb one.

RLA · Aug 20, 2014

I am a parts manager at a Ford Garage,

Currently I am able to get 18.00 per battery
core credit..

You might try to see if a Ford garage will take
them for 12 to 15.00? Just a thought. I won"t
handle them for nothing & it"s better them
seeing them just leak into the ground.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 20, 2014

Indiana has a law, sell anything at scrap yard requires a photo ID and records of what scrap yard buys.

I know of a pawn dealer who lost all he worked for decades because he used the DON'T ASK DON'T TELL policy. A theif rolled on him. He lost everything.

Casey in Ky · Aug 20, 2014

We've got the same law here. Mostly because of the theft of copper. Problem is I'm guessing the thiefs are cracking the batteries, draining them, and just bringing in the lead. Probably with other scrap metal. Makes it almost impossible to determine where the metal actually came from. That, and there's also several less than reputable junk dealers that from time to time end up in jail. They get smacked on the hand, then let loose to do it all over again.

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