It's free here if you take them to what the county calls the "transfer
station," where you can drop off damn near anything you want to get rid of,
short of a nuclear device. And I'm not sure they won't take those; I just
haven't needed to ask. And there are a couple of battery recycling outfits here
that will actually pay for old batteries, like $3-5 apiece, depending on size.
I've got five dead ones sitting in the basement, and we need some stuff hauled
off anyway. The guys who advertise in the freebie newspaper and on cable that
they'll "haul anything away" are usually glad to get old batteries since they
can get a few extra bucks for them.
I guess I need to make a pile and a phone call.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Walt wrote:
> > While I was out, I stopped at the neighborhood Pep Boys to
> > pick up a couple of small doohickeys, and while there, I
> > decided to see what they were getting for an Optima 34:
> > $169.95! Add the 6% sales tax, which I don't pay on an
> > out-of-state purchase, and it looks like I've saved myself
> > over $40.00, not even counting the convenience of having it
> > brought right to my door.
>
> Ah, but what about the disposal cost for the old battery? In my
> state, we spend a small fortune getting rid of the old ones.
>
> AG
>
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