Battery Recycling

Batteries are now collected at Sedona Recycles seven days a week, 8am-4pm. Please bring your batteries inside the facility and read the signs with battery recycling instructions. There is a suggested donation of $1 per pound to cover our expenses for shipping and recycling batteries.

We will no longer collecting batteries at New Frontiers Natural Marketplace in Sedona.

Batteries are also accepted at Verde Valley ACE Hardware, 545 S. 12th St. in Cottonwood. Batteries are collected during business hours, seven days a week, and are recycled in partnership with Sedona Recycles.

Most household batteries are accepted for recycling, including:

• A through D
• 9-volt
• Rechargeable or single use
• Cell phone batteries
• Drill batteries
• Watch batteries

Batteries are recycled at Battery Solutions in Mesa, AZ. Click here to see how each type of battery is recycled.

We do not accept auto batteries, please take them to Checker Auto Parts or Napa Auto Parts.

Rechargeables vs. Disposables

According to the EPA, Americans purchase nearly 3 billion dry-cell disposable batteries every year. This constitutes 88% of the mercury and 54% of the cadmium deposited into US solid waste landfills, posing a potential long-term threat to groundwater and drinking water supplies.

According to a study by Uniross carried out in 2007, the production of rechargeable batteries have the following advantages over disposables (comparing serviceable life):

- 23 times less potential impact on non-renewable natural resources
- 28 times less potential impact on global warming
- 30 times less potential impact on air pollution (ozone pollution)
- 9 times less potential impact on air acidification
- 2 times less potential impact on water pollution

Cost Analysis for Rechargeable vs. Disposable Batteries*
Battery Type	Batteries Produced	Initial Procurement Cost Per Battery	Total Procurement Costs	Hazardous Waste Disposal (grams)	3-year Cost Savings
Rechargeable	1	$11	$11	16gm	$639
Disposable	876	$0.74	$650	105gm	-

* Soviero, Marcelle, "Batteries Come Clean," Popular Science, July 1992, v241, n1.