Proper Car Battery Disposal In Melbourne

• 11 May 2023
• by Melbourne Metal Recycling
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Since drivers use their cars almost on a daily basis, the batteries that provide power to various systems eventually give out and need replacing to ensure that the car keeps working in an optimal manner. As a result, there is an overwhelming amount of vehicle batteries each year that may show up in landfills that should not be there as they will pollute the environment. For this reason, you should always use proper car battery disposal methods when ridding yourself of a used automobile battery.

Why Proper Disposal of Car Batteries Is Important

The reason that you need to turn to the correct disposal methods with car batteries is their contents. They are made up of alkaline, mercury, nickel, lead acid and cadmium all of which are toxic to the air, soil and ground water. Proper disposal methods will prevent this polluting of the environment.

Ways to Safely Dispose of Vehicle Batteries

If you are replacing an old car battery with a new one, many automobile supply stores will take your old one and dispose of it in a safe manner. However, if you do not have any of these automobile supply stores in your area, recycling centres exist that accept vehicle batteries. Certain companies also pay you a fee for recycling batteries but more on this in the next section.

Our Recycling Company Accepts Car Batteries

Melbourne Metal Recycling is one of the recyclers that we mentioned above which pays you cash for your old car batteries. Whether your battery is from a small economy car or a larger car, we will take it and recycle is it for you. The benefit of turning to us is the fact that we provide you cash on the spot that you can spend on other things in your life.

Other Materials That We Recycle for You

We recycle non-ferrous and ferrous metals from a variety of sources along with car batteries. If you continually do your part to protect the environment, you can bring the following elements to us and keep them out of the landfills:

• Car batteries
• Bronze
• Brass
• Copper radiators
• Stainless steel
• Electric motors
• Aluminium wheel rims
• Steel
• Scrap cars
• Lead
• Aluminium
• PVC as far as electrical cables
• Machinery
• Appliances
• Many more items

Browse through our website or contact our facilities to learn additional facts about our company and recycling services. Help us keep the recycling chain going since many people turn to us for the items you sell to us. The environment is precious and we need to preserve it from the dangers of deteriorating car batteries and metallic items.